📚 Literature Trivia
Quiz Set 2 — Classic Novels
Answer all 10 questions. Click an option to see if you got it right!
Question 1 of 10
Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960; it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
Question 2 of 10
What was Shakespeare's first play?
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (c.1589-1593) is considered one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.
Question 3 of 10
Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
Fyodor Dostoevsky published Crime and Punishment in 1866, a psychological novel about guilt.
Question 4 of 10
What is a haiku?
A haiku is a Japanese poem of three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
Question 5 of 10
Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
Gabriel García Márquez published Cien años de soledad (1967), the defining magical realist novel.
Question 6 of 10
What famous poem begins 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood'?
Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' (1916) is one of the most quoted poems in English.
Question 7 of 10
Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales (c.1387-1400), a collection of stories told by pilgrims.
Question 8 of 10
What is a sonnet?
A sonnet has 14 lines typically in iambic pentameter, made famous by Shakespeare and Petrarch.
Question 9 of 10
Who wrote 'The Iliad'?
Homer composed the Iliad (c.8th century BCE), the Greek epic about the Trojan War.
Question 10 of 10
What novel features the characters Sherlock Holmes?
Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Arthur Conan Doyle.