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Literature 120529 is a selection of 10 questions. Literature 120529 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 In the title of the 1864 novel by Jules Verne, where did Professor Lidenbrook lead an expedition?
A The Centre of the Earth
2 A Scandal in Bohemia, is the title of a short story from 1891 featuring which fictional detective?
A Sherlock Holmes
3 What is William Shakespeare’s longest play?
A Hamlet (the full text of Hamlet has 29,551 words and 4,042 lines)
4 How many steps are there in John Buchan’s adventure novel of 1915?
A 39 (The Thirty-Nine Steps)
5 Who captained Jules Verne’s submarine Nautilus?
A Captain Nemo
6 In which Dickens novel does Miss Havisham always wear the wedding dress she was jilted in?
A Great Expectations
7 Who wrote the books Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?
A Victor Hugo
8 In which of John Wyndham’s novels is a large part of the population blinded by a brightly coloured comet shower?
A The Day of the Triffids (published 1951)
9 In which tale by Gaston Leroux, does the protagonist, Erik, fall in love with a beautiful soprano called Christine?
A The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra)