Famous Literary Quotes Trivia Questions

Sample Famous Literary Quotes Questions

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1. 1.Boats beating against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past, provides the poetic final image of this American classic.

   • Of Mice and Men
   • The Grapes of Wrath
   • The Great Gatsby
   • East of Eden

2. 2.Tolstoy opens this Russian saga about a doomed love affair by noting that all happy families resemble each other.

   • The Brothers Karamazov
   • Anna Karenina
   • War and Peace
   • Crime and Punishment

3. 3.A three-word refrain about fatalistic acceptance appears over a hundred times in this time-traveling anti-war novel.

   • Slaughterhouse-Five
   • All Quiet on the Western Front
   • Catch-22
   • The Things They Carried

4. 4.Clocks striking an impossible hour in the opening line immediately signals wrongness in this Orwell dystopia.

   • Brave New World
   • We
   • 1984
   • Fahrenheit 451

5. 5.A fake letter tricks a pompous steward with words about being born great, achieving greatness, or having it thrust upon one in this comedy.

   • As You Like It
   • A Midsummer Night's Dream
   • Twelfth Night
   • Much Ado About Nothing

6. 6.A man facing the guillotine reflects that it is a far better thing he does than he has ever done in this Dickens novel.

   • David Copperfield
   • Great Expectations
   • Oliver Twist
   • A Tale of Two Cities

7. 7.An inscription warning entrants to abandon all hope marks the gate to the underworld in this medieval Italian epic poem.

   • Beowulf
   • Paradise Lost
   • The Faerie Queene
   • The Divine Comedy

8. 8.A giant billboard featuring spectacled eyes watches over a valley of ashes in this novel symbolizing moral decay.

   • The Sun Also Rises
   • The Great Gatsby
   • Tender Is the Night
   • Absalom, Absalom!

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