Classic Literature Trivia Questions
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Which novel features a title character who spends his early childhood with his mother and their servant Clara Peggotty?
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david copperfield
Who is the author of the 1720's novel 'The Adventures of Captain Singleton' that followed 'Robinson Crusoe'?
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daniel defoe
Which famous wild horse from Arabia was introduced in a 1941 book by Walter Farley?
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black stallion
What is the title of the 1871 sequel subtitled 'Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys'?
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little men
What is the title of the Edmund Spenser work that begins with 'The Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross'?
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faerie queene
Who is the character that, despite being married to Alexei, falls in love with Count Vronsky in a famous novel?
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anna karenina
In which Kipling story do Peachy Carnahan and Daniel Dravitt plan to make themselves kings of Kafiristan?
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man who would be king
What is the title of the Kipling story where two comic adventurers become the godlike leaders of an Afghan tribe?
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man who would be king
In which Sir Walter Scott classic is the beautiful Rebecca carried off by Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert?
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ivanhoe
In which novel does a character named Emma take poison after exhausting her husband's inheritance on a love affair?
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madame bovary
Which author passed away in 1924 without finishing 'The Trial' and 'The Castle'?
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franz kafka
Which literary character is known as a bored French housewife who commits adultery, incurs substantial debt, and eventually takes her own life?
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madame bovary
In what fictional country created by Samuel Butler is the goddess Ydgrun worshipped?
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erewhon
In which Orwell novel is the Ministry of Peace, also known as Minipax, responsible for war?
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1984
Which R.D. Blackmore novel, set in Exmoor, Somerset, starts in the year 1673?
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lorna doone
What 1932 Pearl Buck novel was dramatized by Owen and Donald Davis?
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good earth
In a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, what title insignia does Arthur Dimmesdale reveal to bear on his chest?
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scarlet letter
By the age of 13, in which novel by Somerset Maugham is Philip Carey a student at the King's School in Tercanbury?
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of human bondage
What type of wild animal is Shere Khan in 'The Jungle Book'?
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tiger
Who is the governess brought to Thornfield Manor to care for Rochester's ward, Adele Varens?
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jane eyre
What is the name of the deer in the 1923 novel by Felix Salten, which was originally intended for adults as well as children?
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bambi
In Charles Dickens' novel 'Great Expectations', who is the spinster guardian of Estella, the woman Pip falls in love with?
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miss havisham
Which novel begins with the line, 'All happy families are alike but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion'?
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anna karenina
Who is the evil hypnotist introduced by George Du Maurier in his 1894 novel 'Trilby'?
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svengali
Which book by Anna Sewell may have inspired the horse-narrated story 'Moorland Mousie'?
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black beauty
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