Page-Turner Challenge! Test Your Literary Knowledge: Top 50 Trivia!

From Shakespeare to sci-fi, prove your mastery of the written word with this novel-worthy quiz!

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Easy Level

  1. Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?

    Answer: William Shakespeare

  2. What dystopian novel features "Big Brother"?

    Answer: 1984 by George Orwell

  3. Which novel begins with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?

    Answer: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

  4. Who wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

    Answer: Harper Lee

  5. What is the sequel to "The Hunger Games" called?

    Answer: Catching Fire

  6. Which author created Sherlock Holmes?

    Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  7. What fictional island is the setting for "Lord of the Flies"?

    Answer: An unnamed tropical island

  8. Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?

    Answer: Jane Austen

  9. What is the first book in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" series?

    Answer: The Fellowship of the Ring

  10. Which poet wrote "The Raven"?

    Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

  11. What novel features the character Jay Gatsby?

    Answer: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  12. Who wrote the "Harry Potter" series?

    Answer: J.K. Rowling

  13. What is the name of the whale in "Moby-Dick"?

    Answer: Moby Dick

  14. Which author wrote "The Catcher in the Rye"?

    Answer: J.D. Salinger

  15. What classic novel is set in Maycomb, Alabama?

    Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

Medium Level

  1. Who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"?

    Answer: John Milton

  2. What novel features the Bennet family?

    Answer: Pride and Prejudice

  3. Which Russian author wrote "Crime and Punishment"?

    Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky

  4. What is the real name of Mark Twain?

    Answer: Samuel Clemens

  5. Which play by Arthur Miller is about the Salem witch trials?

    Answer: The Crucible

  6. What novel by Mary Shelley features a scientist named Victor Frankenstein?

    Answer: Frankenstein

  7. Who wrote the poem "The Waste Land"?

    Answer: T.S. Eliot

  8. What is the sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?

    Answer: Through the Looking-Glass

  9. Which author wrote "Brave New World"?

    Answer: Aldous Huxley

  10. What is the name of the fictional language in "A Clockwork Orange"?

    Answer: Nadsat

  11. Who wrote the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

    Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

  12. What novel by Gabriel García Márquez popularized magical realism?

    Answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude

  13. Which author wrote "The Odyssey"?

    Answer: Homer

  14. What is the first name of the author George Orwell?

    Answer: Eric

  15. Who wrote the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"?

    Answer: Dylan Thomas

  16. Which novel features the character Holden Caulfield?

    Answer: The Catcher in the Rye

  17. What is the setting of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"?

    Answer: The Yorkshire moors

  18. Who wrote "The Divine Comedy"?

    Answer: Dante Alighieri

  19. Which author penned "The Canterbury Tales"?

    Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

  20. What is the real name of George Eliot?

    Answer: Mary Ann Evans

Hard Level

  1. What unfinished novel by Jane Austen was published posthumously?

    Answer: Sanditon

  2. Who wrote the experimental novel "Finnegans Wake"?

    Answer: James Joyce

  3. Which poet wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"?

    Answer: John Keats

  4. What is the original title of Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" in German?

    Answer: Die Verwandlung

  5. Which playwright wrote "Waiting for Godot"?

    Answer: Samuel Beckett

  6. What was Virginia Woolf's first published novel?

    Answer: The Voyage Out

  7. Who wrote the epic poem "Beowulf"?

    Answer: Unknown (Anonymous)

  8. Which author created the fictional land of Middle-earth?

    Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

  9. What is the real name of the poet Pablo Neruda?

    Answer: Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto

  10. Which novel by Herman Melville opens with "Call me Ishmael"?

    Answer: Moby-Dick

  11. Who wrote the satirical essay "A Modest Proposal"?

    Answer: Jonathan Swift

  12. What is the name of the fictional language in "1984"?

    Answer: Newspeak

  13. Which Russian novel features Prince Myshkin as its protagonist?

    Answer: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  14. Who wrote the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

    Answer: T.S. Eliot

  15. What was the original title of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"?

    Answer: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

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