
Many popular classics have made a difference in the world of literature.
Think you know your literature? Here are some questions to test "the little grey cells".
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Which of these classic novels was published first?

The Lord Of The Rings
Candide
Dracula
Pride And Prejudice
Who wrote the literary classic "War and Peace"?

Fyodor Dostoyevky
Leo Tolstoy
Ernest Hemingway
Charles Dickens
In which world does The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe take place?

Narnia
Middle-Earth
Westeros
The Wizarding World
True or False: Jane Austen had decided on the title "Pride & Prejudice" early on in the writing stages.

False
True
In which decade does The Great Gatsby take place?

The 1910s
The 1950s
The 1860s
The 1920s
Which novel explores an alternate world where the Axis Powers won the second world war?

1984
Brave New World
Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Man in the High Castle
True or False: Anna Karenina was originally published as a novel, with its 800+ pages.

False
True
What happens to Okonkwo at the end of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart?

He is tried and executed
He commits suicide
He is sold into slavery
He is exiled for life
Which novel birthed the genre of science fiction?

Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
H.G. Wells' The Time Machine
Bram Stoker's Dracula
True or False: The protagonist in C.S. Lewis’ sci-fi trilogy was modeled after J.R.R. Tolkien.

True
False
In Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, what is the nature of the Nautilus' propulsion?

Nuclear power
Coal power
Hydrogen fuel cell
Steam power
How do the children in William Golding's Lord of the Flies end up on the island?

A commercial airliner goes down during the Cold War
A zeppelin crashes in 1919
A British plane crashes during World War II
A cruise ship sinks near the island
True or False: The author of "To Kill A Mockingbird," Harper Lee, only wrote the one novel.

True
False
In Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451," what commodity is prohibited and burned upon discovery?

Books
Newspapers
Corn
Tobacco
What is the other title for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"?

Captain's Call
Obsession
The White Whale
The Whale
True or False: Edgar Allen Poe originally wanted a parrot to say "Nevermore" instead of a raven.

False
True
What is the best-selling novel of all time?

The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
2 Comments
16/17. I read most of these books decades ago. But I tried reading Things Fall Apart before I was ready for it, i.e., I didn’t understand the one book I missed on this quiz because I read it when I wasn’t old enough then.
4/17 how was I supposed to know… I’m gen z…..