Classic Novels and Their Authors

Literature · 10 questions

Match the great books to the minds that wrote them.

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1. Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?

   1. Jane Austen
   2. Charlotte Brontë
   3. George Eliot
   4. Mary Shelley
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   A) Jane Austen

2. Which novelist created the detective Sherlock Holmes?

   1. Agatha Christie
   2. Edgar Allan Poe
   3. Arthur Conan Doyle
   4. Wilkie Collins
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   C) Arthur Conan Doyle

3. Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?

   1. Leo Tolstoy
   2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
   3. Anton Chekhov
   4. Ivan Turgenev
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   B) Fyodor Dostoevsky

4. Which author wrote '1984' and 'Animal Farm'?

   1. Aldous Huxley
   2. H. G. Wells
   3. Evelyn Waugh
   4. George Orwell
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   D) George Orwell

5. Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?

   1. Gabriel García Márquez
   2. Jorge Luis Borges
   3. Pablo Neruda
   4. Mario Vargas Llosa
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   A) Gabriel García Márquez

6. Which American author wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?

   1. Ernest Hemingway
   2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
   3. John Steinbeck
   4. William Faulkner
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   B) F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. Who wrote 'Frankenstein' as a teenager?

   1. Emily Brontë
   2. Jane Austen
   3. Virginia Woolf
   4. Mary Shelley
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   D) Mary Shelley

8. Which French author wrote 'Les Misérables'?

   1. Alexandre Dumas
   2. Gustave Flaubert
   3. Victor Hugo
   4. Émile Zola
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   C) Victor Hugo

9. Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens.

   1. True
   2. False
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   A) True

10. 'Moby-Dick' was written by Charles Dickens.

    1. True
    2. False
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    B) False