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Literary classics from Ancient Greece until the end of the nineteenth century. Did you study them in school? Have you read them since. Find out what you remember!
category Alcott, Louisa May category Austen, Jane
category Boccaccio, Giovanni category Bronte Sisters
category Carroll, Lewis category Chaucer, Geoffrey
category Conrad, Joseph category Dante
category Defoe, Daniel category Dickens, Charles
category Dostoyevsky, Fyodor category Dumas, Alexandre
category Eliot, George category Gaskell, Elizabeth
category Hardy, Thomas category Hawthorne, Nathaniel
category Homer category Hugo, Victor
category Kipling, Rudyard category London, Jack
category Marlowe, Christopher category Melville, Herman
category Poe, Edgar Allan category Shelley, Mary
category Stevenson, Robert Louis folder The Classics (14)
category Twain, Mark category Verne, Jules
category Virgil category Wilde, Oscar
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1 trivia quiz  MotherGoose's "Mother Goose" Quiz icon
Most of the information for this quiz came from the Mother Goose Society website. This society was founded in 1987 to promote the tradition of Mother Goose rhymes and tales. (Note: this quiz is not for children).
 Difficult 10Q
3462 plays
 Oct 26 03
MotherGoose editor
2 trivia quiz  Nineteenth Century Literary Characters icon
These are some of the most famous characters in nineteenth-century American and British literature. Do you recognize them?
 Average 10Q
4131 plays
 Aug 06 02
dinkytown
3 trivia quiz  The Romantic Period: Authors and Poets coolicon
Process of elimination is the key to this quiz. Each author is the answer to only one question. Two additional questions ask you to name works.
 Average 15Q
1053 plays
 Feb 24 03
skylarb gold
4 trivia quiz  Middle English Literature coolicon
Refresh your knowledge or broaden your horizons with this survey of Middle English Literature. Here, you?ll find more than just Chaucer, though you'll find him too!
 Tough 20Q
591 plays
 Feb 19 03
skylarb gold
5 trivia quiz   British Classical Women Writers icon
This quiz concerns the lives and works of women writers.
 Average 15Q
714 plays
 Sep 11 02
nutter2002
6 trivia quiz  Great Literature Miscellany icon
A series of questions on a smattering of great literature written before the 20th century.
 Tough 15Q
1092 plays
 Aug 12 03
skylarb gold
7 trivia quiz  English Literature Before 1800
Welcome. Below you'll find the first couple of lines from some famous major English literary works. Some of the texts are presented in a modern translation or in a modernized spelling. It's up to you to identify the work. Good luck.
 Average 15Q
531 plays
 Mar 25 02
marienbart
8 trivia quiz  English Literature Made Simple - No. 3 icon
This quiz will cover Eighteenth Century English literature up to the Romantic Revolt.
 Average 10Q
537 plays
 Apr 19 04
rblayer gold
9 trivia quiz  Mixed Bag of Victorian Literature icon
Tired of quizzes about the Bronte sisters? Try this quiz, it will test a broader range of literature from some much-loved Victorian writers.
 Difficult 15Q
582 plays
 Jun 20 04
tkane82
10 trivia quiz  English Literature Made Simple - No. 2 icon
Anyone who survived a high school or college English Lit. class should have no problem with this quiz about 'non-Shakespearian' Elizabethan Age and 17th Century literature. Enjoy.
 Average 10Q
720 plays
 Apr 16 04
rblayer gold
11 trivia quiz  Classic English Novels icon
You are given the summary of the initial situation or events of a classic English novel. Up to you to find out which one is meant.
 Average 10Q
1665 plays
 Apr 19 02
flem-ish
12 trivia quiz  Who Didn't Write It? icon
Theme: 19th century authors and books. Instead of asking "Who wrote it?", I ask which of four books was NOT written by a given author.
 Average 10Q
1071 plays
 Feb 01 03
skylarb gold
13 trivia quiz  The Victorian Age Quote Identification icon
Match the passage to the author. All of the quotes come from British works from the Victorian age. Most of the selections are from poems, but a few are from important essays from the period.
 Tough 15Q
291 plays
 Aug 29 03
chicknator
14 trivia quiz  Ancient and Renaissance Literature icon
Thanks to my lit class in college, I've been inspired to produce this quiz concerning the writings of the western world. Enjoy!
 Average 10Q
492 plays
 Nov 10 01
GypsyQueen
15 trivia quiz  Victorian Literature
Questions on British (and Irish?) Victorian poets and novelists.
 Difficult 10Q
1338 plays
 Mar 05 00
oink
16 trivia quiz  Mixed Trivia: Literary Classics
Following are trivia questions about various literary classics.
 Difficult 10Q
1992 plays
 Mar 14 01
ravenskye
17 trivia quiz  English Literature Made Simple - No. 4 icon
While my first English Lit. quiz covered a thousand years, this one will focus on the 39 year period between 1798 and 1837 and the great works of the Age of Romanticism.
 Average 10Q
495 plays
 Apr 22 04
rblayer gold
18 trivia quiz  Authors of the Classics
I'm taking this class that's all about Gothic novels... so here's a test your 'Gothic' author skills...
 Average 10Q
3213 plays
 Sep 26 00
jaydeeTECH
19 trivia quiz  Match Historical Book and Author
These aren't your modern fiction classics, but rather the works that have influenced history over several centuries. Good luck!
 Tough 10Q
1767 plays
 Apr 24 00
DesertFox
20 trivia quiz  Authors of Classic Literature
Match the authors with the books they wrote.
 Average 10Q
2874 plays
 Aug 15 00
Raincloud
21 trivia quiz  Early English Prose icon
A brief walk through English prose from the 12th to the 18th century.
 Tough 15Q
459 plays
 Aug 07 02
marienbart
22 trivia quiz  Classic Short Stories icon
See how familiar you are with some well-known short stories.
 Tough 10Q
834 plays
 Aug 16 00
robert362
23 trivia quiz  Who Wrote What?
A pretty simple match the title to the author deal. Good Luck!
 Average 10Q
3474 plays
 May 24 00
avory
24 trivia quiz  Literary Movies
Can you identify the authors on whose works the following movies were based?
 Difficult 10Q
2145 plays
 Feb 25 00
davidmunn
25 trivia quiz  Fantastic Books
A tremendous quiz which I thoroughly enjoyed writing....it should be fairly easy if you have read the books, if not then you'll be in the same boat as me
 Average 10Q
1575 plays
 Jan 08 01
onearmedbandi55
26 trivia quiz  Literature, generally
Did you pay attention in lit class? A simple literature quiz to check it out ! Good Luck!
 Tough 10Q
1452 plays
 Aug 15 00
Ruma
27 trivia quiz  Who Wrote What ?-Part 2
More match the book to the author stuff-it's pretty easy!
 Average 10Q
1461 plays
 May 25 00
avory
28 trivia quiz  More Literature, Generally Speaking
Are you REALLY well-read? Find out by going through this literary general knowledge quiz....good luck!
 Tough 10Q
1533 plays
 Aug 22 00
ruma
29 trivia quiz  Authors of Literary Classics
Match the classic literary work with the author to win big!
 Average 10Q
3705 plays
 Feb 14 00
highstrung
30 trivia quiz  Who Wrote What?-Part 3
I think you all know the drill by now but for newcomers this is an easy match the author to the title quiz. I hope everyone hasn't got too bored of this!
 Average 10Q
1083 plays
 May 28 00
avory
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Some sample questions from this category:

* Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
* Which of these people was NOT a character in 'Lonesome Dove'?
* Which of these is NOT a class of people in the novel, 'Brave New World'?
* What is the name of the main character from the book, 'Catch 22'?
* How many people are shipwrecked in, 'Swiss Family Robinson'?
* The FINAL queastion, I'm sure you've read 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', but where on Earth is that kid from?
* The Metamorphosis? (and it is NOT Kafka...)
* The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
* Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
* Which Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights?
* Which novel features the detecting skills of Sergeant Cuff?
* What poet wrote the lines 'Oh, to be in England, Now that April's there'?
* What novel bears the sub-title 'A Pure Woman'?
* What novel has the alternative title, 'The Two Nations'?
* Which of these novels is set in large part in America?
* Which poet asserted, 'each man kills the thing he loves'?
* Which Dickens novel features the London debtor's prison, the Marshalsea?
* Which poet wrote Modern Love?
* Who wrote 'The Faerie Queene'?
* Which poem did John Keats NOT write?

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