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Alexandre Dumas Quiz: Musketeers, Monte Cristo
Test your knowledge of Alexandre Dumas: his birth, his heroes, the Château d'If, his collaborator, his son, also a writer, and the end of his life.
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Authors, novels, poetry, literary awards
Literature gathers great works and great names: Molière and Racine, Victor Hugo, Balzac and Zola, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Dickens, then contemporary novelists, plus the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, detective fiction, science fiction and children's books. Famous plots and characters appear here, from Don Quixote to Madame Bovary and Sherlock Holmes, along with movements such as Romanticism, Realism and Existentialism.
Some questions also deal with literary prizes such as the Goncourt or the Nobel Prize in Literature. These free literature quizzes come in five levels from very easy to expert, and every answer is followed by an explanation that puts the book or author in context, which makes them a handy refresher before a reading list or an exam.
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Expert Literature Quiz: Formalism, Theory and Postmodern Novels
Expert literature quiz on Russian Formalism, The Man Without Qualities, the death of the author, Gravity's Rainbow and the Morphology of the Folktale.
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Hard Literature Quiz: Ulysses, Faust and Stream of Consciousness
A hard literature quiz on Ulysses in Dublin, Faust, The Sound and the Fury, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and a poet published after her death.
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Literature Quiz: Nobel Prize, Modernism and Theater (Intermediate)
Intermediate literature quiz: a 1982 Nobel winner, The Red and the Black, Waiting for Godot, a man turned into an insect and Mrs Dalloway. 10 questions.
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Literature Quiz: Crime and Punishment, Poirot and Tartuffe (Easy)
Easy literature quiz: Crime and Punishment, the playwright of Tartuffe, Poirot's creator, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Flowers of Evil.
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Literature Quiz: Les Misérables, Sherlock Holmes, Fables (Very Easy)
A very easy literature quiz: the author of Les Misérables, poems told in verse, the Crow and the Fox fable, Sherlock Holmes's creator and biographies.
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Frequently asked questions about Literature
Who wrote Les Misérables and when was it published?
Les Misérables is a novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1862. It follows, among others, Jean Valjean, a former convict, through the France of 1815 to 1832, from the aftermath of Waterloo to the Paris uprising of June 1832.
Who wrote Don Quixote and when did it first appear?
Don Quixote was written by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. The first part appeared in 1605 and the second in 1615, and the novel is often described as one of the foundations of the modern novel.
What does the Goncourt Prize reward and when is it awarded?
The Prix Goncourt rewards a work of French-language prose each year, most often a novel, chosen by the Académie Goncourt. Established under Edmond de Goncourt's will, it has been awarded since 1903, traditionally in the autumn.