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1. Who was the villainess of Alexandre Dumas' "The Three Musketeers"?
2. Which Walter Scott novel has the characters Front-de-Boeuf, Lady Rowena and Athelstane?
3. In Rider Haggard's novel, what is the name of the mysterious, long-lived African queen known as "She-who-must-be-obeyed"?
4. Professor Aronnax, the narrator of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", has a faithful manservant who is an expert at what?
5. Dickens wrote this novel in installments, which were wildly popular on both sides of the Atlantic. Indeed, when the ship carrying one of the final installments arrived in New York, crowds on the dock called up to it: "Is Little Nell dead?" Which novel was it?
6. An educated young woman marries a much older man in the hope of being his research assistant, helpmate, and amanuensis. Which George Eliot novel is this?
7. In Wilkie Collins' mystery novel "The Woman in White", what is the relationship between the two heroines Marion Halcombe and Laura Fairlie?
8. Kim, the eponymous hero of Rudyard Kipling's novel, is friends with a Muslim horse trader from the markets of Umballa. What is his name?
9. What ultimately happens to the owner of the Hound in Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?
10. A nervous young man pays a visit to acquaintances in the country and is told that the family has a tragic past - years ago, three uncles disappeared with their little dog on the moors while hunting. The young man gets the shock of his life when what he assumes are the ghosts of the three uncles enter the room. Name this famous short story by Saki.
11. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote a number of adventure tales under which pseudonym?
12. Name the first book in Anthony Trollope's series, the "Barsetshire Chronicles".
13. Who was the "Prisoner of Zenda" in Anthony Hope's novel?
14. Jerome K. Jerome's classic tale of the hapless adventures of three bachelors on holiday is titled "Three Men in a Boat". What is its subtitle?
15. Who will marry me? My father, Felix, is a rich merchant, but also a fierce miser. I will only be married into a family which can bring an equal wealth to the union. Unfortunately for my papa I fall in love with my cousin Charles, who is penniless. He leaves to make his fortune, and I promise to wait for him, but eventually avarice, not love, wins the day. Who am I?
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