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Introduction:
"Calling all bookworms! From the mind of an Honours English student, here's a general quiz about some of the greatest authors, characters, and pieces of literature of all time (in my humble opinion). Some are well-known, and others less so. Good luck!"


1. Which of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ironically preaches the virtuousness of silence through the story of a talking crow who has its white feathers plucked and its ability to speak destroyed as punishment for telling the truth?
    The Pardoner's Tale
    The Miller's Tale
    The Manciple's Tale
    The Merchant's Tale


2. Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three different Shakespeare plays. He can be found in "Henry IV, Part One," "Henry IV, Part Two," and which other play?

    The Taming of the Shrew
    Henry V
    The Merry Wives of Windsor
    Richard II


3. Henry Fielding wrote a short comical satire in response to Samuel Richardson's famous epistolary novel "Pamela." What was it called?
    Clarissa
    Joseph Andrews
    Squire Booby
    Shamela


4. Which fictional character often uses the term "old sport" when speaking to his friends?

    Tod Hackett
    Holden Caulfield
    Jay Gatsby
    McTeague


5. In George Orwell's "1984," which room contains "the worst thing in the world"?
    Room 101
    Room 102
    Room 100
    Room 103


6. "The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in the suburb of Saint Antoine, in Paris, where it was spilled. It had stained many hands, too, and many faces, and many naked feet, and many wooden shoes. The hands of the man who sawed the wood, left red marks on the billets; and the forehead of the woman who nursed her baby, was stained with the stain of the old rag she wound about her head again. Those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees--BLOOD." Which novel is this from?
    Great Expectations
    David Copperfield
    Oliver
    A Tale of Two Cities


7. Which Jane Austen novel is set primarily at Hartfield?
    Pride and Prejudice
    Emma
    Sense and Sensibility
    Persuasion


8. In "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," what is the order of animals hunted during the hunting sequence?
    Boar, fox, deer
    Boar, deer, fox
    Fox, deer, boar
    Deer, boar, fox


9. In Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene," the Redcrosse Knight is later revealed to be whom?
    King Arthur
    St. George
    St. Michael
    King James


10. Which novel tells the story of a family with children named Andrew, Jasper, Roger, James, Prue, Rose, Nancy, and Cam?
    To the Lighthouse
    The Grapes of Wrath
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
    To Kill a Mockingbird


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