Novels Quiz
"Novels are longer than life." --Natalie Clifford Barney
The answers appear after the last question, number 25.
1. Thomas Sutpen appears in which of William Faulkner's novels?
a. Absalom, Absalom!
b. Marty
c. Tommy
d. Hello, Hello!
2. In the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, who is the main character?
a. Henry Babbitt
b. Daisy Miller
c. George Babbitt
d. Casper Babbitt
3. Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front?
a. Norman Mailer
b. Erich Maria Remarque
c. Rip Torn
d. Evan Von Schlep
4. What was the only novel written by Sylvia Plath?
a. The Cookie Jar
b. The Bell Jar
c. The Tower Bell
d. The Esther Greenwood Story
5. What author wrote Captains Courageous?
a. Rudyard Kipling
b. Jane Austen
c. F. Scott Fitzgerald
d. Mark Twain
6. Who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men?
a. Robert Penn Warren
b. William Faulkner
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Huey Long
7. In All the President's Men, what notorious break-in is explored?
a. The Teapot Dome
b. Watergate
c. The Vatican Caper
d. Buckingham Palacegate
8. What is the name of the Franciscan friar in The Bridge of San Luis Rey?
a. Brother Moonbeam
b. Father Sammy
c. Brother James
d. Brother Juniper
9. What was the profession of Adam Bede in George Eliot's novel of the same name?
a. jockey
b. carpenter
c. computer technician
d. steel tycoon
10. In The Adventures of Augie March, what was Augie's religion?
a. Jewish
b. Catholic
c. Baptist
d. Mormon
11. In what novel do Lambert Strether and Chad Newsome appear?
a. The Pirates
b. The Ambassadors
c. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
d. The Congressman
12. Stephen Rojack is the hero in An American Dream. Who wrote it?
a. Emily Post
b. Daniel Defoe
c. Norman Mailer
d. Jimmy Carter
13. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment is set in what country?
a. Russia
b. Yugoslavia
c. Greece
d. Germany
14. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, who are the smartest animals?
a. cats
b. pigs
c. horses
d. elephants
15. Count Vronsky is a charming officer in Anna Karenina. Who wrote it?
a. Leo Tolstoy
b. Karl Marx
c. Noel Coward
d. George Bernard Shaw
16. What was the name of the dwarf in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers?
a. Scott
b. Ben
c. Paula
d. Lymon
17. In what year is the novel Brave New World set?
a. 632 af
b. 22 ar
c. 1968
d. 64 mr
18. Who was the captain in The Caine Mutiny?
a. Quell
b. Quest
c. Queeg
d. Quirk
19. In Jack London's The Call of the Wild, what is the name of the dog?
a. Buck
b. Spot
c. Millie
d. Muttly
20. How many tales are there in The Canterbury Tales?
a. 15
b. 24
c. 9
d. 150
21. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller takes place in which war?
a. World War I
b. World War II
c. Korean War
d. Civil War
22. Holden Caulfield is a character in what J. D. Salinger novel?
a. Lillies of the Field
b. Melrose Place
c. The Pitcher Loves Scotch
d. The Catcher in the Rye
23. The Count of Monte Cristo takes place in what country?
a. France
b. England
c. Switzerland
d. Italy
24. Madame de Bellegarde and Christopher Newman are characters in what novel by Henry James?
a. The Finn
b. The New Yorker
c. The Parisian
d. The American
25. Who wrote Another Country?
a. James Baldwin
b. George Bush
c. Malcolm X
d. Betsy Ross
Answers: 1-a, 2-c, 3-b, 4-b, 5-a, 6-a, 7-b, 8-d, 9-b, 10-a, 11-b, 12-c, 13-a, 14-b, 15-a, 16-d, 17-a, 18-c, 19-a, 20-b, 21-b, 22-d, 23-a, 24-d, 25-a
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