Famous Novels
Instructions: How well do you know the world's most celebrated novels and their authors?
- 1.
Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice,' published in 1813?
ACharlotte BrontëBEmily BrontëCGeorge EliotDJane Austen - 2.
What is the setting of Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick'?
AThe California gold rushBA New England farmCThe American frontierDThe whaling industry at sea - 3.
Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
AAnton ChekhovBIvan TurgenevCFyodor DostoevskyDLeo Tolstoy - 4.
In Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities,' which two cities are featured?
ALondon and DublinBLondon and RomeCParis and ViennaDLondon and Paris - 5.
Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
AJorge Luis BorgesBGabriel García MárquezCPablo NerudaDIsabel Allende - 6.
Which novel by Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961?
ATo Kill a MockingbirdBGone with the WindCThe Color PurpleDThe Grapes of Wrath - 7.
Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby,' set in the Jazz Age of the 1920s?
AWilliam FaulknerBJohn SteinbeckCErnest HemingwayDF. Scott Fitzgerald - 8.
Which Charlotte Brontë novel features the governess Jane and her employer Mr. Rochester?
AJane EyreBVilletteCWuthering HeightsDAgnes Grey - 9.
Who wrote 'Don Quixote,' often called the first modern novel?
APedro Calderón de la BarcaBMiguel de CervantesCFederico García LorcaDLope de Vega - 10.
Which novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the psychology of a murderer named Raskolnikov?
ACrime and PunishmentBNotes from UndergroundCThe IdiotDThe Brothers Karamazov - 11.
Which 1847 novel by Emily Brontë is set on the Yorkshire moors?
AJane EyreBMiddlemarchCTess of the d'UrbervillesDWuthering Heights - 12.
Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea,' a novella about a Cuban fisherman?
AErnest HemingwayBJohn SteinbeckCJack LondonDMark Twain - 13.
Which Victor Hugo novel is set during the June Rebellion in Paris in 1832?
ANinety-ThreeBLes MisérablesCThe Hunchback of Notre-DameDThe Man Who Laughs - 14.
Who wrote '1984,' a dystopian novel about totalitarian surveillance?
AGeorge OrwellBRay BradburyCH.G. WellsDAldous Huxley - 15.
Which novel by Margaret Mitchell, set during the Civil War, won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize?
AGone with the WindBThe Color PurpleCLittle WomenDBeloved