True or False Book Quiz
Test your literary knowledge with our True or False Book Quiz. 10 Questions on famous authors and novels. Good Luck!
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#1. Harper Lee was Truman Capote’s assistant when he was writing In Cold Blood.
Unlucky! They were childhood friends and Harper Lee worked together on In Cold Blood
#2. Gustav Flaubert’s Madame Bovary contains the longest sentence ever printed at a total of 823 words.
Unlucky! It was Les Miserables by Victor Hugo that has this longest sentence ever printed.
#3. Toni Morrison’s real name is Chloe Ardelia Wofford
Unlucky! She adopted the name Toni for her saint – Anthony – at age 12, after converting to Catholicism
#4. Boris Pasternak refused the Nobel Prize for Literature he was awarded in 1958.
Unlucky! He had little choice, as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union forced him to turn it down
#5. Aldous Huxley taught George Orwell’s French class at Eton College in 1917.
Unlucky! Huxley taught briefly at Eton in 1917 and one of his students was George Orwell
#6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain was the first novel to sell 1 million copies.
Unlucky! It was actually Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#7. Die Hard movie was an adaptation of Roderick Thorpe’s book The Detective
Unlucky! It was an adaptation of Roderick Thorpe book Nothing Lasts Forever
#8. Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley when she was still a teenager
Unlucky! She started writing it when just 18 and finished when she turned 19.
#9. As a schoolboy, Roald Dahl was a taste-tester for Cadbury’s chocolate.
Unlucky! This may have been the later inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
#10. A M Barnard was the pseudonym used by Elizabeth Gaskell early in her career
Unlucky! It was Louisa May Alcott that use A M Barnard pseudonym when she wrote sensational stories quite different from the homely novels for which she is best known.
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