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The classic literature quiz

The classic literature quiz

How well-read are you really?

Do your bookshelves groan under the weight of the all-time greats or just boast best-selling bonkbusters? Do you know your Hardy from your Hogwarts and Mr Darcy from Mark Darcy? Flex your fiction knowledge with our classic novel quiz…

By Michael Hogan

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The classic literature quiz

The classic literature quiz

Answers

1. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall

2. Mansfield Park

3. Barsetshire

4. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way

5. Nancy Mitford

6. George Elliot

7. Vanity Fair

8. Thomas Hardy

9. Louise May Alcott on Little Women

10. Seven

11. Clarissa

12. The Modern Prometheus

13. Edward Morgan

14. The Great Gatsby

15. Manderley

16. Atticus

17. David Copperfield

18. Howard’s End

19. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

20. Mary and Kitty

The classic literature quiz

The classic literature quiz

Emily Bronte famously wrote Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre. But what did their other sister Anne write?

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In which Jane Austen novel is Fanny Price the heroine?

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In which fictional county are many of Anthony Trollope’s best-loved novels set?

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What’s the opening line of Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy?

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Which novelist popularised the phrases “U” and “non-U”, meaning upper and middle class?

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Under what name did Mary Anne Evans write novels?

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Which classic novel has the subtitle: “A Novel Without A Hero”?

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Which author divided his own fiction into three categories: “Novels Of Character And Environment”, “Romance And Fantasy” and “Novels Of Ingenuity”?

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"The publisher asked me to write a girl's book. I said I'd try. Now I plod away, although I don't enjoy this sort of thing.” Who said this about which book?

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How many novels did the three Bronte sisters write between them?

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What’s Mrs Dalloway’s first name in the novel by Virginia Woolf?

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What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?

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For what do EM Forster’s initials stand?

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“In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice I've been turning over in my mind ever since.” So starts which novel?

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What is the name of the house that’s the main setting in Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca?

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What was Harper Lee’s original title for To Kill A Mockingbird?

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Which Charles Dickens hero is widely acknowledged to be a self-portrait by the author?

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Zadie Smith’s 2005 novel On Beauty is a homage to and modern retelling of which classic?

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Constance Reid is the heroine of which novel?

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In Pride And Prejudice, Jane and Elizabeth are the oldest Bennett sisters and Lydia is the youngest. What are the two in between’s names?

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