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1 In Kenneth Graeme’s book Wind in the Willows, which character escapes from prison disguised as a washerwoman?
A Toad
2 What do you call someone who writes a book for somebody else whose name then appears as the author of that book?
A Ghost-writer (Katy Price for example)
3 The first chapter of which famous 1865 novel is titled Down the Rabbit Hole?
A Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
4 Which fictional character is novelist Mary Shelley best known for creating?
A Frankenstein
5 Who was the main character who went Around the World in Eighty Days in Jules Verne’s 1873 novel of the same name?
A Phileas Fogg
6 First published in 1726, for which book is Jonathan Swift most famous?
A Gulliver’s Travels
7 Who wrote the 1874 novel Far From the Madding Crowd?
A Thomas Hardy
8 What nationality was Dracula author Bram Stoker?
A Irish (born Clontarf, Dublin)
9 Which 1928 novel chronicles the love affair between an upper-class young woman and her husband’s gamekeeper?
A Lady Chatterley’s Lover (by D. H. Lawrence)
10 Listed fifth of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century, who wrote the 1932 novel Brave New World?
A Aldous Huxley (set in a dystopian London of AD 2540)