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Literature Firsts 100302 is a selection of 10 questions. Literature Firsts 100302 is the filename to differentiate it from other Art and Literature quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 What is the first name of the protagonist in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
A Ebenezer – Dickens wrote that he got the name from a gravestone he saw in Scotland, Ebenezer Scroggie
2 What colour features in the title of the first Sherlock Holmes story?
A Scarlet (Study in Scarlet)
3 Which fictional detective made a first appearance in the 1920 novel ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’?
A Hercule Poirot
4 Against Which House Was Harry’s First Qudditch Match?
A Slytherin
5 Which Florida-born writer’s first success was the 1865 book ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’?
A Mark Twain, first published in a New York periodical, The Saturday Press in 1865.
6 In Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”, which character tells the first tale?
A The Knight
7 In Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice, what is the first name of central character Mr Darcy?
A Fitzwilliam, the name derives from a combination of the word fitz, meaning son of, and William.
8 What is the first name of E. M. Forster, the English author best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908)?
A Edward, Morgan
9 In which 1981 Thomas Harris novel does the character Hannibal Lecter first appear?
A Red Dragon. In the book, Lecter has a small role as a villain.
10 Who was the first British author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature 1907?
A Rudyard Kipling – he wrote the Jungle Book in 1894