The Classic Book Quiz

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You’ve heard of them, you might have read them all but can you remember them. Test your knowledge of Classic Novels with our fun quiz. 10 Questions on Classic Books and Famous Authors

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#1. Jean Valjean was the main character in which classic novel?

Unlucky! Jean Valjean is the protagonist in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables published in 1862

#2. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad was set where?

Unlucky! The novella was set in Congo Free State, it was adapted for film as Apocalypse Now as set during the Vietnam War

#3. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller was banned in the US because of...?

Unlucky! It was the sexual content of the book that caused the uproar

#4. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell was written in which year?

Unlucky! It was published in 1949

#5. In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens what were the two cities?

Unlucky! It was set in London and Paris

#6. In Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, what was Charles Bovary's profession?

Unlucky! He was a Health Officer as he didn’t had the qualifications to be called a Doctor

#7. In Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh what was Brideshead?

Unlucky! Brideshead Castle was the family mansion of the Flyte family

#8. What was Mark Twain's real name?

Unlucky! Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

#9. In Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo, where is Monte Cristo

Unlucky! The island of Monte Cristo is in the Tuscan region of Italy

#10. In Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, who did Anna have an affair with?

Unlucky! She had an affair with Count Alexei Vronsky

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