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M. Torri – Literature Trivia Bonus Quiz
ONE POINT FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER Name
:
_____Andrea Maxan ______________________
1. Who wrote the children’s poem “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”—Shakespeare, Robert Browning, Maurice Sendak?
Robert Browning
2. What is the origin of the phrase “United we stand, divided we fall”—
Aesop’s Fables, The Gettysburg Address, The Fall of the House of Usher
?
Aesop’s Fables
3. Who is the author of the Harry Potter series?
J.K. Rowling 4. What are the last names of the two feuding families in Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and
Juliet”?
The Montague and The Capulet 5. What are the names of the two feuding gangs in West Side Story
?
The Jets and The Sharks 6. Dorothy and her pet were swept away to an unknown land in what L. Frank Baum book?
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ
7. Who asked, “What happens to a dream deferred” – Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes?
Langston Hughes
8. What boy is Huckleberry Finn’s best friend?
Tom Sawyer
9. Which of the following was NOT
written by Toni Morrison—
Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Waiting to Exhale
?
Waiting to Exhale
10. Who wrote The Divine Comedy
—Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Dante Alighieri?
, Dante Alighieri
Fill in the blanks
: 11. “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
_______.”
12. “To be or not to be, that is the question
____________.” 13. “A rose is a rose is a _rose
________.”
14. “How do I __love
____ thee? Let me count the ways.”
15. “I do not like green eggs and __ham
______. I do not like them Sam I am.”
Complete the Titles of these literary works
:
16. Moby
___
Dick
______
17. “Paradise __
Lost
______”
18. Little ___House
_______ on the Prairie
19. Harry Potter and the __Goblet
________ of Fire
20. “A Streetcar Named ___
desire
________”
21. “A Raisin in the _
sun
_______”
22. “The Merchant of __
Venice
______”
23. The _lliad
________ & the Odyssey
24. One Hundred Years of __solitude
_______
25. All Quiet on the Western _front
_______
Choose the correct answer from the choices provided
:
26. During what century did Geoffrey Chaucer live?
a. 1200s
b. 1300s
c. 1400s
d. 1500s
e. 1600s
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