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Frequent Lit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Shakespeare play about a Denmark prince (To be or not to be) | Hamlet |
| Oedipus (drama) creator | Sophocles |
| Shakespearean tragedy about a woman who plots the murder of a Scottish King (Duncan) and becomes Queen | Macbeth |
| The Iliad author | Homer |
| Don Quixote author | Cervantes |
| The Great Gatsby author | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| name this Shakespeare tragedy, in which Desdemona is killed after Iago tricks the title Moor of Venice | Othello |
| Paradise Lost author | John Milton |
| The Canterbury Tales author (Wife of Bath, Knight's Tale, Miller's Tale, The Reeve's Tale, the Squire's Tale) | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Shakespearean play about the titular king who divided his kingdom between two thankless daughters, Goneril and Regan, and cast out his youngest daughter Cordelia | King Lear |
| Pride and Prejudice Author | Jane Austen |
| 1984 Author | George Orwell |
| Stephano and Trinculo are caught while trying to carry out an assassination plot during the marriage of Ferdinand and Miranda with Caliban's help. Shakespeare play in which Prospero shipwrecks several noblemen on his island by calling up the title storm. | The Tempest |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Author | Mark Twain |
| The Scarlet Letter Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Jane Eyre Author | Charlotte Bronte |
| Odyssey Author | Homer |
| Aeneid Author | Virgil |
| The Red Badge of Courage Author | Stephen Crane |
| Crime and Punishment Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| The Divine Comedy creator | Dante |
| The Grapes of Wrath author | Steinback |
| To Kill a Mockingbird Author | Harper Lee |
| Les Miserables Author | Victor Hugo |
| Anna Karenina Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| War and Peace Author | Leo Tolstoy |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude Author | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Ulysses (novel) Author | James Joyce |
| Heart of Darkness Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Candide Author | Voltaire |
| The Three Musketeers Author | Alexandre Dumas |
| A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield Author | Charles Dickens |
| Madame Bovary Author | Gustave Flaubert |
| name this William Shakespeare play where Portia dresses up as a lawyer to protect her husband Bassanio’s friend Antonio from Shylock | The Merchant of Venice |
| Our Town author | Thornton Wilder |
| The Catcher in the Rye author | JD Salinger |
| Pygmalion author | George Bernard Shaw |
| Robinson Crusoe author | Daniel Defoe |
| A Farewell to Arms author | Ernest Hemingway |
| Brave New World author | Aldous Huxley |
| Epic Old English poem where the title character battles Grendel and a dragon | Beowulf |
| Catch 22 author | Joseph Heller |
| The Crucible author | Arthur Miller |
| A Doll's House author | Henrik Ibsen |
| Oliver Twist author | Charles Dickens |
| Vanity Fair author | William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Antigone creator | Sophocles |
| Animal Farm author | George Orwell |
| The Stranger author | Albert Camus |
| The Sun Also Rises author | Ernest Hemingway |
| Lolita author | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin author | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Faust poet | Goethe (prounounced Ger-ta) |
| Little Women author | Louisa May Alcott |
| Great Expectations author | Charles Dickens |
| Inferno creator | Dante |
| The Count of Monte Cristo author | Alexandre Dumas |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls author | Ernest Hemingway |
| Things Fall Apart author | Chinua Achebe |
| Frankenstein author | Mary Shelley |
| Billy Budd and Moby Dick author | Herman Melville |
| The Call of the Wild author | Jack London |
| The Magic Mountain author | Thomas Mann |
| The Sound and the Fury author | William Faulkner |
| Slaughterhouse-Five author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Lord of the Flies author | William Golding |
| Of Mice and Men author | Steinback |
| Main Street author | Sinclair Lewis |
| Waiting for Godot author | Samuel Beckett |
| Wuthering Heights author | Emily Bronte |
| Pilgrim's Progress author | John Bunyan |