Novels Built from Letters

Literature · 10 questions

Novels told through letters, diaries, and documents, with prominent examples of the form.

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1. Which extensive novel made up of letters is a major example in 18th-century English literature?

   1. Robinson Crusoe
   2. Clarissa
   3. Tom Jones
   4. Gulliver's Travels
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   B) Clarissa

2. Who wrote the French epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses?

   1. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
   2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
   3. Marquis de Sade
   4. Voltaire
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   A) Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

3. Which Gothic novel uses Walton's letters as its narrative frame?

   1. Wuthering Heights
   2. The Castle of Otranto
   3. Frankenstein
   4. The Monk
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   C) Frankenstein

4. Which Bram Stoker novel brings together diaries, letters, and newspaper excerpts?

   1. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
   2. Carmilla
   3. The Picture of Dorian Gray
   4. Dracula
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   D) Dracula

5. Which novel explores class and morality through a servant girl's letters?

   1. Tristram Shandy
   2. Evelina
   3. The History of Tom Jones
   4. Pamela
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   D) Pamela

6. Which Alice Walker novel is told through letters?

   1. The Color Purple
   2. Their Eyes Were Watching God
   3. The Bluest Eye
   4. Beloved
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   A) The Color Purple

7. Which work by C. S. Lewis consists of fictional letters?

   1. The Problem of Pain
   2. The Screwtape Letters
   3. The Great Divorce
   4. Mere Christianity
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   B) The Screwtape Letters

8. Which Anne Brontë novel is narrated through letters and a diary?

   1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
   2. Jane Eyre
   3. Wuthering Heights
   4. Agnes Grey
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   A) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

9. What narrative opportunity do letters by different characters provide in a novel?

   1. A single narrative voice
   2. Omniscient narration
   3. Multiple viewpoints
   4. Uninterrupted chronology
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   C) Multiple viewpoints

10. Why can letters and diary entries lead readers to question a narrator's reliability?

    1. An omniscient narrator
    2. Subjective and limited information
    3. Uninterrupted chronology
    4. Objective third-person narration
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    B) Subjective and limited information