Some sample questions from this category:
* Which of the following novels is a modern retelling of Dante's 'Inferno'?
* Who is the priest torn between his obsessive lust for the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and his devotion to God in Victor Hugo's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'?
* In Nikos Kazantzakis's 'The Last Temptation of Christ', which character does not appear in the final 'dream sequence' Satan presents to Christ as his last temptation?
* Which of the following roles does the title character of Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre' NOT assume at some point in the novel?
* In Graham Greene's novel 'The End of the Affair', why does Sarah leave Bendrix?
* In Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables', which character shows the ex-convict Jean Valjean kindness and thus succeeds in turning Valjean's life over to God?
* In John Irving's 'A Prayer for Owen Meany', what is the title character's conviction?
* What is the setting of Barbara Kingsolver's 'The Poisonwood Bible'?
* In Margaret Craven's 'I Heard the Owl Call My Name', what is the fate of Mark Brian, the young priest sent to the Native American village of Kingcome in an effort to spread the influential sphere of Christianity?
* In Toni Morrison's 'Sula', which of these acts does the title character NOT commit?
* Which of the following is NOT a work of religious FICTION by C.S. Lewis?
* This book contains many long passages of theological debate. Its hero is a young monk whose spiritual elder is named Father Zosima.
* This foundational Christian allegory, written in the 17th century, recounts a journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
* Which is NOT a work of religious FICTION by G.K. Chesterton?
* This Victorian novelist wrote a trilogy about the spiritual awakening of a curate named Thomas Wingfold.
* Which of the following is NOT a work of religious FICTION by John Milton?
* In this 14th century work of allegorical religious fiction, the hero promises to show the way to St. Truth.
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