Test your knowledge of classic fiction with The Really Old Book Quiz. For this quiz we’re rolling back the years with classic literature pre-18th Century. Enjoy!
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The Really Old Book Quiz
Results
#1. Who wrote Troilus and Criseyde, published around 1385?
Unlucky! Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer
#2. Sancho Panza is a character in which 17th century work?
Unlucky! Sancho Panza appears in Don Quixote, written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605.
#3. In Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, what was Blefuscu?
Unlucky! Lilliput and Blefuscu are two island nations located in the South Indian Ocean.
#4. In Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, the story begins in which European country?
Unlucky! Faustus is a brilliant sixteenth-century scholar from Wittenberg, Germany where the story begins
#5. Which author published several volumes of Fables from 1668 to 1694?
Unlucky! Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from both Western and Eastern sources and adapted them into French
#6. Which of these titles was not written by Matsuo Bashō?
Unlucky! Essays in Idleness was written by Yoshida Kenkō
#7. Where is the the Old English poem Beowulf set?
Unlucky! Beowulf takes place in Scandinavia
#8. The New Atlantis by Sir Francis Bacon is an incomplete utopian novel, published posthumously in which year?
Unlucky! It was published in 1626
#9. Which of these works was not written by Niccolò Machiavelli?
Unlucky! Leviathan was written by Thomas Hobbes
#10. Planine by Petar Zoranić, published in 1569, takes place in the mountains of which country?
Unlucky! It is set in the author’s home country of Croatia
Books Featured in the Quiz
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