Classic Novels & Authors

Question 1

Who wrote 'Moby-Dick,' the epic novel about obsession and the sea?

Accepted Answer

Herman Melville

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Washington Irving

Question 2

What novel did Charlotte Brontë publish under the pseudonym 'Currer Bell'?

Accepted Answer

Jane Eyre

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Wuthering Heights

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Villette

Question 3

Who authored 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' a magical realism masterpiece?

Accepted Answer

Gabriel García Márquez

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Jorge Luis Borges

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Julio Cortázar

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Alejo Carpentier

Question 4

What novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set during the Jazz Age in the summer of 1922?

Accepted Answer

The Great Gatsby

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Tender is the Night

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This Side of Paradise

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The Beautiful and Damned

Question 5

Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment,' exploring morality through a tortured protagonist?

Accepted Answer

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Lev Tolstoy

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Ivan Turgenev

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Anton Chekhov

Question 6

What novel by Jane Austen explores social class through the romantic entanglements of Elizabeth and Darcy?

Accepted Answer

Pride and Prejudice

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Emma

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Sense and Sensibility

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Northanger Abbey

Question 7

Who is the narrator of 'The Great Gatsby' and closely observes Gatsby's life?

Accepted Answer

Nick Carraway

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Jay Gatsby

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Tom Buchanan

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Jordan Baker

Question 8

What novel by George Orwell depicts a totalitarian surveillance state called Oceania?

Accepted Answer

1984

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Animal Farm

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Burmese Days

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Who wrote 'Moby-Dick,' the epic novel about obsession and the sea?