The Ultimate Literary Quiz

There are people who read. Then there people who read. Most only read books once, then there are those of us who have been through more copies of Julius Caesar than boxes of Kleenex.

So think you're well read do you? You'll think otherwise once you've finished my quiz. Come on, let's see how well read you really are. You may think you read enough to be a literary critic but I guarantee you've overrated your abilities.

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1. In Star Wars, who was the Chosen One
Luke
Anakin
2. Which character from Pride and Prejudiced was described as having "good humor."
Lydia Bennet
Charlotte Lucas
Jane Bennet
Maria Lucas
Caroline Bingley
Lizzie Bennet
3. Name the following line to this excerpt "Toil and trouble"
Double, double
And cauldron bubble
Something wicked this way comes
Fire burn
4. Who wrote the poem "Chartless"?
Christian Rossetti
Emily Dickenson
Elizabeth Barrett Brown
5. "If form and figure be true, I will not marry you" came from what play?
Salome
As You Like It
The Mourning Bride
The Ideal Husband
Taming of the Shrew
The Mousetrap
6. Which of the following was NOT a Sith Lord?
Lumiya
Anakin Skywalker
Exar Kun
Jason Solo
Revan
Bane
7. The "vorpul" blade man its appearance in which piece of literature?
The Once and Future King
The Hobbit
The Silver Chair
Jabberwocky
Robin Hood
8. What character in Through the Looking Glass, is dreaming of Alice looking at him and is believed that when he awakens she will cease to exist
Father Time
Red King
Chessire Cat
Mad Hatter
The White Rabbit
9. What is the incantation for the Blasting Curse?
Bombarda
Flagrante
Confringo
Reducto
10. Which of Anne Shirley's children was killed in World War I
James
Shirley
Jerry
Walter
Carl
11. The soliloquey mentioning the "undiscovered country" is from what play?
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Cleopatra
Richard the III
MacBeth
12. How do I love thee, let me count the ways is the opening line in which poem?
Sonnet 116
Portuguese Sonnet 63
Sonnet 120
Chartless
13. What is the next line after: Oh no it is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds
Nor bends with the remover to remove
Whose depths unknown though his measure be taken
It is the star to every wand'ring bark
Love's not Time's fool though rosy lips and cheeks
I never writ nor man ere loved.
14. What Grecian goddess was the catalyst for the Trojan War?
Hera
Eris
Artimis
Diana
Aphrodite
Athena
15. Which of the Pleiades turned was eternally shamed for her love for a mortal. (Hint: think Half-Blood Prince)
Maia
Electra
Taygete
Merope
Sterope
Alcyone
16. Which of the following Canterbury Tales was the inspiration for the Tale of the Three Brothers in Deathly Hallows
The Miller's Tale
The Knight's Tale
The Nun Priest's Tale
The Reeve' Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
17. Life seems a quick succession of busy nothings was from which book?
Mansfield Park
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Little Women
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
18. Which play was put on by the Betrams in Mansfield Park?
Salome
Lover's Vows
A Woman of No Importance
Amelia and Anhalt
Antony and Cleopatra
19. What is the next line: Heaven has no rage,
Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned
The sea has no tempest
Like love to hatred turned
20. What character in MacBeth was not born of woman?
Donalbain
Malcolm
The Thane of Fife
Lennox
Siward
Caithness
21. What quality is twice blessed in that "It blesseth him that gives and him that takes"
forgiveness
love
peace
kindness
mercy
longsuffering
22. "Music hath charms to sooth the savage beast" is the opening line of what play?
Othello
The Mourning Bride
As you like it
Much Ado about nothing
Midsummer's Night Dream
23. Which of the following was not a horcrux in the properest sense of the term?
The locket
Nagini
Hufflepuff's Cup
Slytherin's Locket
Harry
The Diary
24. Which woman was the ideal love of Petrarch's many sonnets
Portia
Christina
Laura
Maria
Contessa de Valdez
Rosalinda
25. Which character opined that one good sonnet would scare off a very weak sort of love?
Lizzie Bennet
Anne Elliot
Jo March
Emma Woodhouse
Anne Shirley
26. Which of the following is not a novel written by Ann Radcliffe
Romance of the Forest
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Sicilian
The Italian
27. "Why don't you speak for yourself, John" is a line from what poem?
Evangeline
The Courtship of Miles Standish
The Song of Hiawatha
Hyperion: a Romance
Flower de Luce
28. Which of the following is not part of the White Witch's pedigree
Giant
Lilith
jinn
sucubus
29. Which of the following villans won the Big, Bad, Read contest in 2006?
Prof. Moriarty
Madam Morrible
The White Witch
Lord Voldemort
Dracula
Sauron
30. Which of the following races was utterly devestated by the Dominion War
Cadassians
Bajorans
Betazed
Breen
Organians
Kazon
31. Which of these is the core of the Elder Wand in Deathly Hallows
Dragon heartstring
Unicorn Hair
Thestral Hair
Veela Hair
phoenix feather
32. What event in Star Trek probably gave rise to the mirror universe
The Search for Spock
First Contact
Insurrection
The Motion Picture
The Xindi War
The Return Home
33. Which character is Jane Fairfax's foil?
Harriet Smith
Samantha Morton
Lizzie Bennet
Mary Bennet
Charlotte Lucas
Emma Woodhouse
34. Which character was the unintended victim of the Count of Monte Cristo's vengence?
Mercedes
Albert
Valentine
Edward
35. In Guilliver's Travels people with what color hair are thought to be more sexual?
Blonde
Black
Brown
Red
36. Hero was a character from what play?
As you like it
Salome
Much Ado about nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Julius Caesar
37. In the Chronicles of Narnia, Ramandu was what type of being?
Wizard
Shapeshifter
Warlock
Star
Prophet
38. What character's trade mark line was "I would prefer not to."
Scrooge
Mr. Peggotty
Mr. Rochester
Bartleby the Scrivener
Bob Cratchet
39. "Half a league half a league and half a league onward" is the opening line to which poem
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Evangeline
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Miles Standish Requium
40. "Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all" is a refernce to what?
Love
Death of a friend
End of a relationship
Regret

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