American literature
This novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the Jazz Age and tells the story of love for Daisy Buchanan.
Great Gatsby
Which writer is known as the father of detective fiction and wrote The Raven?
Edgar Allan Poe
In which century(ies) and era did Shakespeare write?
16th/17th century, Elizabethan era
Who wrote the play Midsummer Night´s Dream?
William Shakespeare
George Orwell’s Animal Farm is an allegory. Which political regime does it mainly represent?
a totalitarian communist regime
Who is the narrator of The Great Gatsby?
Nick Carraway
Who produced literature in the pre-colonization era?
Native Americans
In which novel does Elizabeth Bennet struggle with love and social class?
Pride and Prejudice
Who wrote Oliver Twist and Great Expectations?
Charles Dickens
Which Shakespearean character says, “To be or not to be, that is the question”?
Hamlet
Which century marks the Romantic era?
19th century
Who is the most prominent author of American naturalism? He wrote The Call of the Wild.
Jack London
Which novel by George Orwell describes a dystopian future with Big Brother watching?
1984
Who wrote the fantasy series The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit?
J. R. R. Tolkien
What kind of novel is Frankenstein?
gothic novel, early science fiction
Name three authors of the Lost Generation.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Who wrote the classic novel Of Mice and Men and later won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
John Steinbeck
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, what magical land do the children visit?
Narnia
Who is the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Oscar Wilde
What kind of works did William Shakespeare write?
Comedies, tragedies and sonnets
Key figures of American history such as John Dickinson, Benjamin Franklin, and George Washington contributed to an important, widely known text. Which one?
The US Constitution
Who is the author of the Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Which medieval English work tells the stories of pilgrims traveling to an old English town and vaguely reminds us of Decameron?
Canterbury Tales
Who created the detective Sherlock Holmes?
Arthur Conan Doyle
In literature, what do we call the “time and place” where a story happens?
A setting