American Literature
Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who created the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
Charles Dickens
Who wrote Les Misérables?
Victor Hugo (France)
Who wrote The Raven?
Edgar Allan Poe
What book features the characters George and Lennie?
Of Mice and Men
What satirical work features characters like Big Brother and Winston Smith?
1984
What Russian author wrote War and Peace?
Leo Tolstoy
What poet said, “I took the one less traveled by”?
Robert Frost
In which novel does Holden Caulfield narrate his story?
The Catcher in the Rye
What novel begins with “It is a truth universally acknowledged…”?
Pride and Prejudice
What classic Japanese tale was written by Murasaki Shikibu?
The Tale of Genji
Who wrote Because I Could Not Stop for Death?
Emily Dickinson
Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
Ernest Hemingway
What novel by Mary Shelley is often considered the first science fiction novel?
Frankenstein
Who is the author of The Metamorphosis?
Franz Kafka
What poem begins “I celebrate myself, and sing myself”?
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
What classic novel is set in the town of Maycomb, Alabama?
To Kill a Mockingbird
What fantasy series did C.S. Lewis write?
The Chronicles of Narnia
What Norwegian playwright wrote A Doll’s House?
Henrik Ibsen
Who wrote the line, “Do not go gentle into that good night”?
Dylan Thomas
What war is central to The Red Badge of Courage?
The American Civil War
What epic poem did John Milton write about the Fall of Man?
Paradise Lost
What Chilean poet won the Nobel Prize and wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair?
Pablo Neruda
What 17th-century English poet wrote To His Coy Mistress?
Andrew Marvell
Which Harlem Renaissance author wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Zora Neale Hurston
What book features the character Pip?
Great Expectations
Which Argentinian author is known for philosophical short stories like The Library of Babel?
Jorge Luis Borges
What metaphysical poet penned Death, be not proud?
John Donne