World Literature Quiz

Question 1

Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?

Accepted Answer

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Question 2

Which Shakespeare play features the characters Hamlet, Ophelia, and Claudius?

Accepted Answer

Hamlet

Question 3

Who wrote War and Peace?

Accepted Answer

Leo Tolstoy

Question 4

What is the oldest known work of literature?

Accepted Answer

The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2100 BC, Mesopotamia)

Question 5

Who wrote The Divine Comedy?

Accepted Answer

Dante Alighieri

Question 6

Which novel begins with the line 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?

Accepted Answer

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Question 7

Who wrote the novel 1984?

Accepted Answer

George Orwell

Question 8

What literary genre does Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis belong to?

Accepted Answer

Absurdist fiction / Existentialist literature

Question 9

Who wrote Don Quixote?

Accepted Answer

Miguel de Cervantes

Question 10

Which Japanese author wrote Norwegian Wood?

Accepted Answer

Haruki Murakami

Question 11

Who wrote Crime and Punishment?

Accepted Answer

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Question 12

What is the Odyssey about?

Accepted Answer

Odysseus's ten-year journey home after Troy

Question 13

Who wrote Things Fall Apart?

Accepted Answer

Chinua Achebe

Question 14

Which novel by Jane Austen features Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy?

Accepted Answer

Pride and Prejudice

Question 15

Who wrote The Stranger (L'Etranger)?

Accepted Answer

Albert Camus

Question 16

What is haiku?

Accepted Answer

Japanese poem: three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables

Question 17

Who wrote the Iliad?

Accepted Answer

Homer

Question 18

Which Colombian author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982?

Accepted Answer

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Question 19

Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?

Accepted Answer

Harper Lee

Question 20

What is the name of the protagonist in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick?

Accepted Answer

Ishmael (the narrator) pursuing Captain Ahab's quest

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