FREE QUIZ BOWL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CLASSIC

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FREE QUIZ BOWL AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CLASSIC

NOVELS EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Author J.D. Salinger

Details two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, Holden searches for truth and rails against the "phoniness" of the adult world.

Answer:

Catcher in the Rye

Question 2: Author Emily Bronte

Classic love story between Catherine and Heathcliff. Considered a staple of Gothic fiction and controversial at the time of publication.

Answer:

Wuthering Heights

Question 3: Author Harper Lee

Issues of race, inequality and segregation Main character Atticus Finch, a lawyer determined to right the racial wrongs of the Deep South.

Daughter named Scout Finch.

Answer:

To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 4: Author Charles Dickens

A play about a mean-spirited and selfish old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas.'Bah Humbug!'

Other characters: Tiny Tim

Answer:

A Christmas Carol

Question 5: Author Harriet Beecher Stowe

Depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book became influential in the U.S and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the North, while provoking widespread anger in the South.

Answer:

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 6: Author Charlotte Bronte

The story of a young, orphaned girl who lives with her aunt and cousins, the Reeds, at Gateshead Hall.

Answer:

Jane Eyre

Question 7: Author Markus Zusak

Historical novel set in Nazi Germany during World War II. Narrated by Death, the story follows Liesel Meminger, a young girl sent to live with foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, in the small town of Molching.

Answer:

The Book Thief

Question 8: Author J.R.R. Tolkien

The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries.Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. Fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins.

Answer:

The Lord of the Rings

Question 9: Author Alice Walker

A feminist work about an abused and uneducated African American teenager, Celie, raised in rural isolation in Georgia who struggles for empowerment

Answer:

The Color Purple

Question 10: Author Tony Morrison

Follows Macon "Milkman" Dead III, a wealthy and privileged Black man who struggles to find a sense of identity.Blends magical realism, history, and African-American folklore Explores the impact of racism and identity

Answer:

Song of Solomon

Question 11: Author Truman Capote

Tells the true story of the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959.

Answer:

In Cold Blood

Question 12: Author John Steinbeck

An Oklahoma migrant worker family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Answer:

The Grapes of Wrath

Question 13: Author Mark Twain

The novel tells the story of the main character's escape from his alcoholic and abusive father and the adventurous journey with his friend Tom Sawyer down the Mississippi River together with the runaway slave Jim.

Answer:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Question 14: Author F. Scott Fitzgerald

Set in Jazz Age New York, this novel tells the tragic story of a self-made millionaire and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth.

Answer:

The Great Gatsby

Question 15: Author Herman Melville

Famously begins with the narratorial invocation "Call me Ishmael." The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod to hunt a whale that previously bit off his leg.

Answer:

Moby Dick

Question 16: Author Elie Wiesel

Memoir detailing Wiesel's experiences as a teenager during the Holocaust. It chronicles his time in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, exploring themes of faith, identity, and humanity amidst unimaginable suffering.

Answer:

Night

Question 17: Author Louisa May Alcott

Follows the lives of the four March sisters-Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Classified as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.

Answer:

Little Women