Deck 2: Literature Trivia: Authors, Novels, and Poems

Question 1

Who wrote The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?

A)george orwell
B)arthur conan doyle
C)henry james
D)william faulkner

Answer 1

arthur conan doyle

Question 2

Who is the protagonist of the novel 1984?

A)george orwell
B)tom jones
C)tom tulliver
D)winston smith

Answer 2

winston smith

Question 3

Identify the popular novel in which the character Charles Bingley appears?

A)1984
B)hard times
C)things fall apart
D)pride and prejudice

Answer 3

pride and prejudice

Question 4

Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?

A)jane austen
B)mary ann evans
C)agatha christie
D)charlotte bronte

Question 5

Who wrote the novel 1984?

A)william faulkner
B)james joyce
C)george orwell
D)john osborne

Question 6

Identify the novel in which the characters Isma, Eamonn, Parvaiz, Aneeka and Karamat appear?

A)1984
B)midnight's children
C)pride and prejudice
D)home fire

Question 7

Who wrote the novel Things Fall Apart?

A)saul bellow
B)chinua achebe
C)ngugi wa thiong'o
D)chimamanda ngozi adichie

Question 8

Who wrote the novel Home Fire?

A)langston hughes
B)saul bellow
C)kamila shamsie
D)alice walker

Question 9

Which society is portrayed in the novel Things Fall Apart?

A)fulani
B)yoruba
C)negrito
D)igbo

Question 10

Who wrote the essay Shakespeare in the Bush?

A)laura bohannan
B)chinua achebe
C)harold bloom
D)dr johnson

Question 11

Who is the director of the film Rashomon?

A)kim ki-duk
B)akira kurosawa
C)yasujiro ozu
D)satyajit ray

Question 12

As I Grew Older is a poem by ____.

A)emily dickinson
B)walt whitman
C)langston hughes
D)thomas hardy

Question 13

Who wrote the poem Everyone Sang?

A)wilfred owen
B)thomas hardy
C)siegfried sassoon
D)walt whitman

Question 14

Who wrote the poem Because I could not stop for Death?

A)emily dickinson
B)elizabeth barret browning
C)rabindranath tagore
D)t s eliot

Question 15

Who wrote the poem The Oak?

A)matthew arnold
B)p b shelley
C)william wordsworth
D)alfred lord tennyson

Question 16

Who wrote the poem, The Destruction of Sennacherib?

A)william wordsworth
B)lord byron
C)william blake
D)thomas gray

Question 17

Who wrote the poem, The Daffodils?

A)p b shelley
B)william wordsworth
C)lord byron
D)s t coleridge

Question 18

Identify the poem from which the following line is taken. I wandered lonely as a cloud

A)the destruction of sennacherib
B)the oak
C)rime of the ancient mariner
D)the daffodils

Question 19

Identify the poet who wrote the following lines. The Carriage held but just Ourselves - And Immortality

A)siegfried sassoon
B)william wordsworth
C)emily dickinson
D)alfred lord tennyson

Question 20

Who wrote the poem The Voice?

A)thomas hardy
B)robert frost
C)emily dickinson
D)alfred lord tennyson

Question 21

Who wrote the sonnet Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

A)thomas wyatt
B)earl of surrey
C)william shakespeare
D)philip sidney

Question 22

Who authored the collection of poetry, A Shropshire Lad?

A)robert frost
B)earl of surrey
C)thomas hardy
D)a e housman

Question 23

Who wrote the poem Birches?

A)robert frost
B)walt whitman
C)emily dickinson
D)t s eliot

Question 24

Who wrote the book Politically Correct Bedtime Stories?

A)italo calvino
B)james finn garner
C)marcel proust
D)julian barnes

Question 25

Polonius and Ophelia are characters in which famous Shakespeare play?

A)king lear
B)othello
C)hamlet
D)macbeth