Quizzes
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1. What
was the pen name Charlotte used?
a. Currer
Bell
b. Charlie
Bean
c. Chuck
Brawntee
2. Charlotte
Brontë died:
a. While
pregnant with her first child. Conflicting sources state the cause of death as
complications from her pregnancy or
tuberculosis.
b. From
a stroke
c. When
she fell off a horse
3. How
old was Charlotte when she died?
a. 23
b. 38
c. 18
4. Which
one of these books did Charlotte NOT write?
a. Villette
b. Shirley
c The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – written by her sister, Anne.
5. In
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, what is the name of the man who runs the Lowood boarding
school?
a. Mr.
Brocklehurst
b. Mr.
Stinkleheimer
c. Father
Smith
6. In
Jane Eyre, what happens to Jane’s
best friend, Helen Burns, at Lowood?
a. She
is sent to the chokey for punishment
b. She
runs away and elopes
c. She
dies of consumption in Jane’s arms
7. In
Jane Eyre, what was the profession of
Adèle Varen’s mother?
a. She
was a dancer
b. She
was a washer woman
c. She
was a midwife
8. What
is the name of Edward Rochester’s estate in Jane
Eyre?
a. Tara
– Is Scarlett O’Hara’s plantation in Gone
with the Wind
b. Thornfield
Hall
c. Pemberley
– Is Mr. Darcy’s estate in Pride and
Prejudice
9. When
was Jane Eyre published?
a. 1816
b. 1916
c. 1847
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How much do you know about Poe? 10/19/14
1. Edgar
Allan Poe was born in:
a. Scotland
b. Massachusetts
(Boston to be exact, on January 19, 1809. He died at the age of 40 on October
7, 1849.)
c. Ireland
2. How
old was Poe’s cousin, Virginia Clemm, at the time of their wedding?
a. 17
b.
13
(He was 26)
c. 37
3. Which
actor starred in numerous films based on Edgar Allan Poe’s writing?
a. Bela
Lugosi (Played Count Dracula in the 1931 film.)
b. Boris
Karloff (Played Frankenstein’s monsters in the 1931 film.)
c. Vincent
Price (House of Usher, 1960; Tales of Terror, 1960 in which he played
Fortunato from the The Cask of the Amontillado;
The Pit and the Pendulum, 1961; The Raven (loosely based on the poem),
1963; The Masque of the Red Death, 1964;
and he also narrated An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe in 1970.)
4. Which
of these is not written by Edgar Allan Poe?
a. The Tell-Tale Heart
b. Hop-Frog
c.
The Monkey’s Paw (Written by W.W.
Jacobs)
5. What
was the name of Roderick’s twin sister in The
Fall of the House of Usher?
a.
Madeline
b.
Annabel
c.
Eleonora
6. Edgar
Allan Poe died of:
a. Dysentery
b. Alcoholism
(This is actually a trick question, as Poe’s death is a mystery. A few days before his death, Poe was found in
a disheveled, delirious state wandering around Baltimore in clothes that were
not his own. He was taken to a hospital where he died four days later. There
are several theories of the cause of death including brain fever, alcoholism,
tuberculosis, diabetes, rabies, murder, suicide, cholera, influenza, syphilis
and heart disease.
c. Opium
overdose (A year prior to his death, Poe almost died from an overdose of
laudanum which contains opium and morphine.
Laudanum was used as a pain killer and tranquilizer, and it is not known
if Poe attempted suicide or didn’t read the directions for the prescribed
dosage.)
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Oscar Wilde Quiz 10/12/14
1. In The
Picture of Dorian Gray, who was Dorian’s love interest?
a. Sibyl Vane
b.
Catherine Barkley (Is Frederic Henry’s love in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway) Click to read review.
c.
Zeena Frome (Is Ethan Frome’s wife in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton) Click to read review.
2. Oscar Wilde was born in:
a. Massachusetts
b. Ireland (Dublin to be exact in 1854)
c.
Scotland
3. Oscar Wilde was convicted and sentenced to
two years hard labor for:
a.
Plagiarism
b. Embezzlement
c. Gross Indecency
4. In The
Canterville Ghost, the Otis twins were affectionately known as:
a. Rock’em and Sock’em
b.
Heckle and Jeckle
c. Stars and Stripes
5. In his lifetime, how many novels did Oscar
Wilde publish:
a. 1 (The
Picture of Dorian Gray was his only novel. Wilde was most noted as a
playwright, but also wrote poems, short stories, and even fairy tales)
b. 17
c. 85
6. Which of these is not written by Oscar Wilde?
a. The Metamorphosis (Written by Franz Kafka about a man who wakes up as a bug.) Click to read review.
b.
A House of
Pomegranates(Collection of Wilde’s fairy tales published in 1891)
c. The Ballad
of the Reading Gaol (Poem published
in 1898 about an execution at Reading (prison) in Berkshire, England.
7. Which museum displays the painting “Picture
of Dorian Gray” by Ivan Albright which was used in the 1945 film “The Picture
of Dorian Gray” starring Angela Lansbury.
a.
The National Gallery in London
b. Art Institute of Chicago
c.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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1. Complete the title of one of GarcÍa
Márquez’s famous
novels, “Love in the Time of …”
2. Complete the title of one of GarcÍa
Márquez’s famous
novels, “One Hundred Years of…”
c. Solitude – The saga of
the BuendÍa family written in a magical realism style.
3. GarcÍa
Márquez was
born in
a. Colombia
4. What prize did he win in 1982?
c. Nobel Prize in Literature
– for his novels and short stories.
5. Gabriel was affectionately known as …
b. Gabo
6. What city did he call home?
a. Mexico City – He
settled in Mexico City, Mexico in the 60s and died there on April 17, 2014 at
the age of 87.
7. Which of the following novellas did GarcÍa Márquez not write?
a. Chronicles of a Death Foretold – About a murder, written in a pseudo-journalistic
style.
b. Memories of My Melancholy Whores – A ninety-year-old man decides to
celebrate his birthday by having sex with a fourteen-year-old virgin.
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