Deck 4: Literary Trivia: Authors and Works

Question 1

Find the odd one out.

A)cariola
B)grisolan
C)horatio
D)daniel de bosola

Answer 1

horatio

Question 2

The White Devil was written by ____

A)william shakespeare
B)john webster
C)thomas kyd
D)john fletcher

Answer 2

john webster

Question 3

When was the play The Rivals first performed?

A)1775
B)1776
C)1774
D)1777

Answer 3

1775

Question 4

The word malapropism came from the name of a character in _____

A)the duchess of malfi
B)the way of the world
C)the rivals
D)hamlet

Question 5

Who wrote the play The School for Scandal?

A)william shakespeare
B)john fletcher
C)john webster
D)r b sheridan

Question 6

When was the School for Scandal first performed?

A)1776
B)1777
C)1774
D)1775

Question 7

Who wrote the essay Of Marriage?

A)joseph addison
B)jonathan swift
C)francis bacon
D)daniel defoe

Question 8

Who wrote the essay Sir Roger at Church?

A)joseph addison
B)jonathan swift
C)francis bacon
D)richard steele

Question 9

Who wrote the novel Gulliver's Travels?

A)jonathan swift
B)daniel defoe
C)henry fielding
D)samuel richardson

Question 10

Who wrote the novel Joseph Andrews?

A)charles dickens
B)samuel richardson
C)jonathan swift
D)henry fielding

Question 11

Who wrote the novel Robinson Crusoe?

A)henry fielding
B)daniel defoe
C)jonathan swift
D)samuel richardson

Question 12

Who wrote the essay Of Truth?

A)joseph addison
B)francis bacon
C)richard steele
D)william hazlitt

Question 13

Who wrote the book The Battle of the Books?

A)daniel defoe
B)francis bacon
C)jonathan swift
D)charles dickens

Question 14

Joseph Andrews was published in ____

A)1742
B)1843
C)1858
D)1750

Question 15

Robinson Crusoe was published in ____

A)1752
B)1737
C)1715
D)1719

Question 16

Who wrote the novel Tom Jones?

A)daniel defoe
B)henry fielding
C)charles dickens
D)samuel richardson

Question 17

Who wrote the novel Shamela?

A)daniel defoe
B)samuel richardson
C)henry fielding
D)laurence sterne

Question 18

Who wrote the novel Amelia?

A)henry fielding
B)samuel richardson
C)laurence sterne
D)tobias smollett

Question 19

Who wrote the novel Moll Flanders?

A)henry fielding
B)samuel richardson
C)daniel defoe
D)laurence sterne

Question 20

Who wrote the novel The Journal of the Plague Year?

A)emily bronte
B)charlotte bronte
C)jane austen
D)daniel defoe

Question 21

Who wrote the novel Colonel Jack?

A)jane austen
B)daniel defoe
C)charles dickens
D)william makepeace thackeray

Question 22

Who wrote the novel The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great?

A)henry fielding
B)samuel richardson
C)william makepeace thackeray
D)laurence sterne

Question 23

Who wrote the novel A Journey from This World to the Next?

A)charles dickens
B)tobias smollett
C)henry fielding
D)laurence sterne