The Glorious Historical Fiction Quiz
Do you know your Historical Fiction? Test your knowledge of Historical Fiction Books with our fun Historical Fiction quiz.
Results
#1. In Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, what is the war?
Unlucky! It was the Napoleonic War that featured in the book.
#2. Circe by Madeline Miller is a retelling of which Greek Myth?
Unlucky! It is based on The Odyssey.
#3. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, tells the story of which famous painter?
Unlucky! It was Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer that painted Girl with a Pearl Earring.
#4. Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize for two of her Wolf Hall Trilogy novels, which of the three didn’t win it?
Unlucky! The Mirror and the Light was the final book of the trilogy and it didn’t win the Booker Prize.
#5. Which African country features in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing?
Unlucky! It was Ghana, the author was born there before moving to the US at the age of 2.
#6. In The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, the Price family settle in which African country?
Unlucky! It was the Belgian Congo.
#7. Who is Arthur in Julian Barnes’s Arthur and George?
Unlucky! It was Arthur Conan Doyle
#8. Published in 2019, who wrote A Long Petal of the Sea?
Unlucky! Isabel Allende is the author
#9. The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton is a tale of gold mining in which country?
Unlucky! New Zealand was the setting
#10. In which European country was Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose set?
Unlucky! It was set in Italy in 1327.
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