Trivia Quiz on 19th Century Literature

1. Which 19th Century novelist's writings included travel sketches called Pictures From Italy and American Notes

A) Mark Twain

B) Jane Austen

C) Charles Dickens

D) Leo Tolstoy

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2. Who wrote the book 'Portrait of a Lady'

A) Henry James

B) Jane Austen

C) George Eliot

D) Charles Dickens

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3. William Sydney Porter is better known as who (literature)

A) Mark Twain

B) Edgar Allan Poe

C) O'Henry

D) Thomas Hardy

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4. The Weir of Hermiston - last unfinished novel of who

A) Charles Dickens

B) Jules Verne

C) Robert Louis Stevenson

D) Thomas Hardy

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5. Who was Elia

A) Samuel Johnson

B) George Eliot

C) Charles Lamb

D) Thomas De Quincey

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6. What 19th century novelist spent his last days as an inspector at New York's Customs House?

A) Nathaniel Hawthorne

B) Mark Twain

C) Charles Dickens

D) Herman Melville

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7. Which nineteenth century author is buried in Samoa

A) Charles Dickens

B) George Eliot

C) Robert Louis Stevenson

D) Oscar Wilde

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8. Eppie Cass is a central character in which |novel by George Eliot

A) Middlemarch

B) Adam Bede

C) Silas Marner

D) The Mill on the Floss

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9. Who was the first novelist to present a typed manuscript to his publisher

A) Charles Dickens

B) Jane Austen

C) Mark twain

D) Victor Hugo

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10. Who wrote "The Outcast of the Islands"

A) Rudyard Kipling

B) Joseph conrad

C) Henry James

D) H. G. Wells

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11. Who wrote the novel' The Turn of the Screw'

A) Edgar Allan Poe

B) Bram Stoker

C) Thomas Hardy

D) Henry James

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12. Which two early 19th century German brothers wrote a collection of fairy tales

A) Grimm brothers

B) Goethe brothers

C) Schiller brothers

D) Hesse brothers

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13. In which country was Rudyard Kipling born

A) England

B) Pakistan

C) United States

D) India

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14. Who wrote Northanger Abbey

A) Charlotte Brontë

B) Mary Shelley

C) Jayne Austin

D) George Eliot

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15. The childrens story 'The Rose and The Ring' was written by which 19th century novelist

A) Charles Dickens

B) Lewis Carroll

C) William thackeray

D) George Eliot

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16. Who is the hero of Rider Haggard's adventure, King Solomon's Mines

A) Allan Quatermain

B) Alan quartermain

C) John Carter

D) Tarzan of the Apes

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17. Which American poet was also a surgeon

A) Walt Whitman

B) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

C) Edgar Allan Poe

D) Oliver Wendell Holmes

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18. In which of Charles Dickens' novels would you find the character Dora Spenlow

A) Great Expectations

B) Oliver Twist

C) David copperfield

D) Bleak House

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19. Harbour who wrote 'the invisible man'

A) H.g wells

B) Herbert George Wells

C) H. G. Wills

D) George Herbert Wells

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20. Who has written many books about Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin

A) C.S. Forester

B) Dudley Pope

C) Patrick o'brian

D) Alexander Kent

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21. What are the two cities in charles dickens' 1859 novel a tale of two cities?

A) London & paris

B) Paris & New York

C) London & Madrid

D) Paris & Berlin

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22. Jane Taylor 1783 1824 wrote what famous verse

A) Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star

B) Mary Had a Little Lamb

C) London Bridge is Falling Down

D) Humpty Dumpty

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23. Who wrote "Dracula"

A) Bram stoker

B) Mary Shelley

C) H. P. Lovecraft

D) Stephen King

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24. Who wrote the story of "the nutcracker"

A) Eta hoffmann

B) Hans Christian Andersen

C) Charles Dickens

D) Victor Hugo

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25. Who wrote 'Crime & Punishment' & 'The Brothers Kamarazov'

A) Leo Tolstoy

B) Ivan Turgenev

C) Nikolai Gogol

D) Fyodor dostoevsky

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26. What book featured Topsy who growed

A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer –Mark Twain

B) Oliver Twist –Charles Dickens

C) Uncle Toms Cabin –H B Stowe

D) Little Women –Louisa May Alcott

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27. Who wrote Vanity Fair

A) Charles Dickens

B) Jane Austen

C) William thackeray

D) George Eliot

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28. Cedrick Errol Was The Name Given To Which Epnymous Child Hero Of The 19th Century

A) Oliver Twist

B) David Copperfield

C) Tom Sawyer

D) Little Lord Fauntleroy

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29. Who was known as the Father of Science Fiction

A) Jules Verne

B) H. G. Wells

C) Isaac Asimov

D) Ray Bradbury

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30. In which literary work does Mrs Do-As-You-Would-Be-Done-By appear

A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

B) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

C) The Wind in the Willows

D) Water babies

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31. Who wrote the novel 'Little Women'

A) Jane Austen

B) Charlotte Brontë

C) Louisa may alcott

D) Mark Twain

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32. Who was kidnapped in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped

A) Alan Breck Stewart

B) Cluny MacPherson

C) Ebenezer Balfour

D) David Balfour

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33. Minnelli who wrote "moby dick"

A) Herman Meville

B) Herbert Melville

C) Herman melville

D) George Melville

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34. Through which volcano did Jules Verne's explorers leave the centre of the Earth

A) Etna

B) Vesuvius

C) Stromboli

D) Krakatoa

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35. Jayne Austin is famous but who reigned Britain when she wrote

A) George III

B) George II

C) George IV

D) Victoria

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36. What was the nickname of the Scottish novelist and poet James Hogg?

A) The Ettrick Bard

B) The Borders' Poet

C) Ettrick Shepherd

D) The Scotch Balladeer

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37. Aurore Dupin b 1804 changed her name what 19th cent author

A) Victor Hugo

B) George Sand

C) George Eliot

D) Lewis Carroll

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38. What was hg well's first novel

A) Time machine

B) The War of the Worlds

C) The Invisible Man

D) The First Men in the Moon

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39. When did Sir Walter Scott write Ivanhoe

A) 1810

B) 1815

C) 1819

D) 1825

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40. Which novel opens and closes with the letters of Robert Walton

A) Wuthering Heights

B) Pride and Prejudice

C) Frankenstein

D) Great Expectations

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41. What was The poem A night before christmas originally called (The Night Visitor, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, A Visit From St Nicholas, A Christmas Visit)

A) A Visit From St Nicholas

B) The Night Visitor

C) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

D) A Christmas Visit

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42. Who wrote Great Expectations?

A) Jane Austen

B) George Eliot

C) Mark Twain

D) Charles Dickens

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43. Who was the author of 'Dracula'?

A) Mary Shelley

B) Stephen King

C) Bram Stoker

D) Anne Rice

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44. What Famous Gothic Novel Was Written By Mary Shelley

A) Frankenstein

B) Dracula

C) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

D) Wuthering Heights

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45. Which Author's Father Was Imprisoned For Debt

A) Jane Austen

B) Charles Dickens

C) Thomas Hardy

D) George Orwell

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46. What Nationality Was Jospeh Conrad

A) Polish

B) British

C) Russian

D) Ukrainian

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47. Which Of Jane Austens Novels Was Publsihed Posthumously

A) Pride and Prejudice

B) Persuasion

C) Emma

D) Sense and Sensibility

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48. Name The 3 Bronte Sisters

A) Jane, Elizabeth & Victoria

B) Maria, Charlotte & Emily

C) Charlotte, Emily & Anne

D) Charlotte, Emily & Victoria

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49. This Romantic poet and husband to Mary Shelley drowned in a boating accident.

A) John Keats

B) Lord Byron

C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D) Percy Bysshe Shelley

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50. Who wrote 'A Christmas Carol'?

A) Victor Hugo

B) Jane Austen

C) Herman Melville

D) Charles Dickens

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51. What Did A E Housemans Initials Stand For

A) Alfred Edward

B) Albert Edward

C) Arthur Ernest

D) Alfred Ernest

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52. Which Character Featured In Jules Verne's (Around The World In 80 Days)

A) Passepartout

B) Fix

C) Phileas Fogg

D) Aouda

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53. Which Famous Book Contains The Line 'It was the best of times it was the worst of times it was the age of wisdom'

A) The Catcher in the Rye

B) A Tale Of 2 Cities

C) Pride and Prejudice

D) 1984

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54. Who wrote three books under the title "Das Kapital" ?

A) Friedrich Engels

B) Max Weber

C) Adam Smith

D) Karl Marx

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55. Who wrote "The count of Monte-Christo"?

A) Victor Hugo

B) Auguste Maquet

C) Gustave Flaubert

D) Dumas

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56. Which Famous Book Contains The Line 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife'

A) Pride & Prejudice

B) Sense and Sensibility

C) Emma

D) Jane Eyre

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57. Who Wrote The Novel Emma

A) Charles Dickens

B) Jane Austen

C) Virginia Woolf

D) Mary Shelley

E) George Eliot

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58. What were the two cities in 'A Tale Of Two Cities'?

A) London and Paris

B) Paris and Rome

C) London and New York

D) Cairo and Paris

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