Bookworm bonanza: A trivia quiz for the true literature lovers

Questions

1. Who wrote the classic novel “Pride and Prejudice”?
2. In which novel does the character Jay Gatsby appear?
3. What is the term for a literary device that gives an inanimate object human characteristics?
4. Which contemporary author wrote “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men”?
5. What is the main theme of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984”?
6. What does the literary term “bildungsroman” refer to?
7. Which author wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?
8. What is the setting of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
9. Which novel features the character Holden Caulfield?
10. What does “iambic pentameter” refer to in poetry?

Answers

1.  Jane Austen
2. The Great Gatsby
3. Personification
4. Cormac McCarthy
5.  Totalitarianism and surveillance
6. A story focusing on character development
7. Gabriel García Márquez
8. Maycomb, Alabama
9. The Catcher in the Rye
10. A metrical pattern of five feet per line with alternating unstressed and stressed syllables