Classic Novels Trivia Questions
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Which Charlotte Bronte novel features Mr. Rochester saying, 'I meant...to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me'?
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jane eyre
What is the title of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel where the fortune recovered belonged to the long-dead Captain Flint?
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treasure island
What is the name of the boy in Dickens' story who was sold by the orphanage after requesting a second helping of porridge?
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oliver twist
In which novel is the father of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy an Army chaplain during the Civil War?
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little women
In which classic novel by Ray Bradbury are books burned as a means to control knowledge?
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fahrenheit 451
In which 1955 novel does the character Humbert Humbert marry a widow named Charlotte Haze to be near her young daughter?
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lolita
In which novel by Dostoevski is a son falsely accused of murdering his father, and it is also Dostoevski's last work?
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brothers karamazov
In which novel is d'Artagnan, a native of Gascony, described as 'Don Quixote at 18'?
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three musketeers
What is the title of the novel by Hemingway about journalist Jake Barnes, taken from a passage in Ecclesiastes?
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sun also rises
In which Theodore Dreiser novel does 18-year-old Carrie Meeber leave her Wisconsin home and move to Chicago?
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sister carrie
What is the title of the 1872 Samuel Butler novel, published anonymously, that is an anagram for 'nowhere'?
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erewhon
What is the title of the Robert Louis Stevenson tale narrated by Jim Hawkins, the cabin boy of the Hispaniola?
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treasure island
What is the title of Edith Wharton's tragic story about a New England farmer who becomes infatuated with his wife's cousin Mattie?
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ethan frome
What is the title of the 1910 novel by E.M. Forster, which refers to the home of Henry and Margaret Wilcox?
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howards end
What 1900 novel begins with the character Caroline Meeber leaving home?
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sister carrie
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