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Literature Through the Ages

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Introduction:
"How well do you know your authors, stories and characters?"


1. To begin with, which popular horror fiction author wrote "Insomnia"?
    R.L. Stine
    Stephen King
    Clive Barker
    Poppy Z. Brite


2. Australian author Garth Nix did NOT write which of these series?
    Keys to the Kingdom series
    Very Clever Baby series
    The Eighth Tower series
    The Old Kingdom series


3. In Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons", who was ultimately responsible for the deaths of the four preferiti and Leonardo Vetra?
    Maximilian Kohler
    Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca
    Captain Elias Rocher
    The Hassasian


4. In Charlotte Bronte's novel "Jane Eyre", one of Jane's cousins wanted Jane to marry and go to India with him as a missionary's wife. Who was it?
    Mr. Rochester
    Mr. Reed
    Mr. Brocklehurst
    St. John Rivers


5. Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a story of discrimmination, prejudice and courage seen through the eyes of Jem Finch.
    True
    False


6. Chinese author Jung Chang wrote a personal history of China during the 20th century through the eyes of herself, her mother and her grandmother. What was the name of this book?
    Chinese Cinderella
    Mao's Last Dancer
    Falling Leaves
    Wild Swans


7. What was the name of the cannibal who became a loyal servant in Daniel Defoe's adventure story "Robinson Crusoe"?
    Friday
    Wednesday
    Monday
    Saturday


8. In "The Day After Tomorrow", a Nazi-thriller book by Allan Folsom, what was Detective McVey investigating that eventually dragged him into the conspiracy?
    The bombing of a train
    Seven headless bodies and one head
    Rotting corpses in a barrel
    A mini Holocaust


9. "I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper." Which Jane Austen book is this quote from?
    Mansfield Park
    Persuasion
    Sense and Sensibility
    Pride and Prejudice


10. And finally, which of these Tamora Pierce series, set in Tortall, is about a young woman who can communicate with animals and shape-shift?
    The Circle of Magic
    The Song of the Lioness
    The Immortals
    The Protector of the Small


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