OK.
As the winner of previous quiz I got Fame's kiss
, 5 oranges, that I can't get still (damn international shipping
) and obligation to write the next quiz.
Fame boldly suggested any theme I like, but I refrained from history, it would be really difficult...
So, if anyone has guts to try
,
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__English Literature__
_______Quiz________
By JustMe.
25 questions.
1
William Shakespeare never wrote:
a) King Henry the Eighth
b) King Henry the Fifth
c) The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
d) The Third Part of King Henry the Fourth
2
How many “Kings Richards” he wrote?
a) Three: the First, the Second and the Third
b) Two: the First and the Third
c) Two: the Second and the Third
d) One: the Third.
3
Which character was created by Samuel Richardson:
a) Tristram Shandy
b) Tom Jones
c) Henry Esmond
d) Sir Charles Grandison
4
Which of these plays depicts the biggest number of deaths among its characters? (armies aside, only those who have name)
a) Romeo and Juliet
b) Macbeth
c) Hamlet, prince of Denmark
d) King Lear
5
Which of these works by Sir Walter Scott isn’t a novel?
a) Waverley
b) Marmion
c) The Bride of Lammermoor
d) Rob Roy
6
Sir Willoughby Pattern was a:
a) Coxcomb
b) Snob
c) Egoist
d) Womanizer
7
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:
a) Ivanhoe
b) King John
c) Lord Arthur Savile’s crime.
d) Sir Nigel
8
In which of these works a wealthy family or person does not adopt the heroine?
a) Agnes Grey
b) Jane Eyre
c) Mansfield Park
d) Bleak House
9
In which of these works a wealthy family or person does not adopt the hero?
a) Tom Jones
b) Nicolas Nickleby
c) Wuthering Heights
d) Oliver Twist
10
In which of these there’s no important letter for heroine to read in the critical moment of the novel?
a) Pride and Prejudice
b) Bleak House
c) Persuasion
d) The Picture of Dorian Gray
11
In which of these heroine becomes considerably wealthier in the end of the novel?
a) Little Dorrit
b) Dombey and Son
c) The Vicar of Wakefield
d) Middlemarch
12
Becky Sharp never ventured to:
a) Throw books out of the window
b) Sing on the operatic stage
c) Steal
d) Divorce
13
Jane Austen’s favorite writer was
a) Maria Edgeworth
b) Fanny Burney
c) Ann Radcliffe
d) Virginia Woolf
14
These statements apply to all Jane Austen’s novels. Which is false?
a) All heroines have sisters.
b) At least one ball is described
c) All heroines marry
d) All heroines are poor compared to men they marry
15
Besides her 6 published novels, Jane Austen left us tons of juvenilia and sketches. Which of these is finished?
a) The Watsons
b) Love and Friendship
c) Lesley Castle
d) Sanditon
16
One of Austen’s heroines never dances anymore. Who is it?
a) Jane Bennet
b) Emma Woodhouse
c) Anne Elliot
d) Eleanor Dashwood
17
Elizabeth Gaskell wrote:
a) The White Company
b) Women in Love
c) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
d) North and South
18
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote:
a) Chronicles
b) Wessex tales
c) A Tale of Two Cities
d) The Canterbury Tales
19
Dinny Charwell married:
a) a member of Parliament
b) a poet
c) a Marine
d) an archeologist
20
Which of these works by John Galsworthy is not a Trilogy?
a) The Forsyte Saga
b) A Modern Comedy
c) The Country House
d) End of the Chapter
21
In which of these novels heroine is not kidnapped?
a) Clarissa
b) The Collector
c) Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
d) Northanger Abbey
And to end it all, several Quotes.
22
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a…”
a) Lawyer
b) House
c) Wife
d) Quiz
23
“I like talking about nothing. It is the only thing…”
a) that can never be explained
b) I know anything about
c) I don’t find boring
d) that offends nobody
24
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of…”
a) Money
b) Words
c) Pleasure
d) Nothing
25
If you know by chance, who is the author of the last two?
