Early Literature
Name a work of Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Love and Friendship, etc.
What series is J.K. Rowling known for?
Harry Potter
What is "In Flanders Fields"?
Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?
William Shakespeare
Who is the protagonist of James Joyce’s Ulysses?
Leopold Bloom
Who penned "The Great Gatsby"?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Stephen King’s 11/22/63, a high school English teacher hurtles back in time to 1963 and attempts to stop what monumental event?
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy
What bird was in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems?
The Raven
Who wrote "Dracula" and "Frankenstein"?
Bram Stoker
Who is the heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter?
Hester Prynne
One of literature’s steeliest heroines, in her short life, she has overcome a traumatic childhood only to be challenged by secrets, strange noises and mysterious fires in her new home of Thornfield Hall. Hint: her name is the title of the book by Charlotte Bronte.
Jane Eyre
Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood takes its name from which Shakespeare play?
Timon of Athens
Who wrote "The Road Not Taken"?
Robert Frost
Sir Walter Scott is known for his historical novels about which country?
Scotland
In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caulfield worries about how this animal survives the winter in New York.
Central Park Lagoon ducks
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights recounts the tragic romance between which two lovers?
Catherine and Heathcliff
Name That Book: Chronologically, this novel comes first in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
One of Emily Dickenson's most iconic poems is titled "Because I could not stop for ____ – (479)".
"death"
Name That Poet: Who wrote the Beat classic “Howl”?
Allen Ginsberg
The character of Hamlet was the ruler of which country?
Denmark
In Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, what food does Oliver famously ask for more of when he says: “Please, Sir, I want some more”?
Gruel
Author Zora Neale Hurston was part of which literary movement?
Harlem Renaissance
What is the title of the poem by E. E. Cummings that is mostly recited at weddings?
"I carry your heart with me"
Name That Author: This writer penned the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Goldfinch.
Donna Tartt
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in print with which novel?
A Study in Scarlet