NOVELS QUESTIONS
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Play the Novels Quiz with your friends and give yourself a great advantage by selecting your starting question from different Novels Questions!
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Chief Bromden kills the hero of this novel, escapes and tells the story as its narrator. What book is this?
Acclaimed author and occassional James Bond writer Kingsley Amis had a literary son best known for "The Rachel Papers." Who is he?
In Charles Frazier's book "Cold Mountain," Inman is wounded and deserts the Confederate army, hoping to get home to Ada, who is waiting for him in Cold Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of what state?
Many of his early books are based on his own adventures at sea, while his later books are often about political intrigue. English was his third language, after Polish and French. Who is he?
What book, a staple of high school English classes, begins, "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"?
Although I graduated from medical school and even interned in London's slums, I quit medicine to write. Ironically, my most famous character, Philip Carey in Of Human Bondage, quits art to become a country doctor. Who am I?
In the mid-1800s, I was one of Boston's leading intellectuals and wrote a poem that saved the USS Constitution. But I was also the first Dean of Harvard Medical School and my research produced a groundbreaking 1843 paper on "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever." Who am I?
After taking LSD as part of a medical experiment at a VA hospital, he got a job in its mental ward, inspiring "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Who is he?
What writer studied aeronautics engineering at Harvard, served in the Pacific in WWII and worked as a Hollywood screenwriter while writing such essays as The White Negro and Advertisements for Myself?
What author said that he got one of his book titles from an old Cockney expression, "He's as queer as a clockwork orange"?
William Sydney Porter wrote under O. Henry, which he is believed to have used as a tribute to Orrin Henry. Who was the original O. Henry?
Which of these wasn't one of the three musketeers' real names, but was the real name of the Cardinal Richelieu?
What novel is written from the perspective of Mr. Lockwood, a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, an isolated manor in Yorkshire?
Born in Bombay and named for a lake in Staffordshire, what writer is said to have spoken Hindi before English?
In what book does Christian make his way past the Slough of Despond, temptations like Vanity Fair, and foes like the Giant Despair, which inhabits Doubting Castle?
Who introduced Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County in the 1929 novel "Sartoris"?
What kind of animal was the hard-working Boxer, who was sent away for glue in "1984"?
What writer, whose own remains would be mistreated, supposedly turned his horse Aaron into a duffel bag?
What famous fictional character was born in 1632 in York, England?
In addition to visiting a host of imaginary countries, Gulliver also visits what real country, where he is asked to trample the crucifix?
F Scott Fitzgerald's critique of Ernest Hemingway's first novel led to him to cut the first 16 pages, so it opens with "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton." What book is this?
Per the book by John Fowles, and the subsequent movie adaptation, who was Sarah Woodruff?
Chapter Three of what classic American book describes a turtle crossing a road?
The people of Salinas at one point burned "The Grapes of Wrath" outside the library. Today, this city has a center dedicated to him as a tourist draw. Who?
While serving as a Civil War nurse, this writer contracted typhoid fever, which she treated with calomel. And the mercury in that drug killed her 20 years later. Who?
What writer died of peritonitis in Panama after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail party?
She spent much of her creative life in France, but who became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (then called "Novel"), thanks to "The Age of Innocence"?
What author of "Naked Lunch" would do cut-up experiments, in which he razored up other writers' work and rearranged it?
What writer survived the firebombing of Dresden, in which Allied planes killed as many as 135,000 people, and even inserted himself as a character in his novel about that experience?
All of these would be great names for cats. But which one is the name of a sardonic character who appears in the title of several of Saki's stories?
Caroline Meeber sleeps her way to the top in what Theodore Dreiser novel, published reluctantly by Frank Doubleday in 1900?
In The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad's sister is named for what mysterious flower, mentioned in Song of Solomon 2:1?
In what John Irving book does Dr Wilbur Larch run the St. Cloud orphanage in northern Maine in the 1920s?
Hadley Richardson married this writer in 1921, and the next year, she lost the only copy of his manuscript on a train to Switzerland. What writer was this?
Edgar Allan Poe's former home at 203 North Amity Street is now a museum dedicated to him. In what city?
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking 13. In what year?
The Nobel Foundations lists Nobel Prize winners by county, even if they decline the prize. Based on this list, what country has been home to the most Nobel literature laureates?
What famous fictional character did Simon Legree kill?
The Governor General's Award is the top award for Canadian fiction. The Pulitzer Prize is the top award in the US. What 1993 novel by Carol Shields is the only book to win them both?
What American writer moved to Canada in 1920 and worked for the Toronto Star, which sent him to Paris to cover the Greco-Turkish War?
Acclaimed author and occassional James Bond writer Kingsley Amis had a literary son best known for "The Rachel Papers." Who is he?
In Charles Frazier's book "Cold Mountain," Inman is wounded and deserts the Confederate army, hoping to get home to Ada, who is waiting for him in Cold Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of what state?
Many of his early books are based on his own adventures at sea, while his later books are often about political intrigue. English was his third language, after Polish and French. Who is he?
What book, a staple of high school English classes, begins, "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"?
Although I graduated from medical school and even interned in London's slums, I quit medicine to write. Ironically, my most famous character, Philip Carey in Of Human Bondage, quits art to become a country doctor. Who am I?
In the mid-1800s, I was one of Boston's leading intellectuals and wrote a poem that saved the USS Constitution. But I was also the first Dean of Harvard Medical School and my research produced a groundbreaking 1843 paper on "The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever." Who am I?
After taking LSD as part of a medical experiment at a VA hospital, he got a job in its mental ward, inspiring "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Who is he?
What writer studied aeronautics engineering at Harvard, served in the Pacific in WWII and worked as a Hollywood screenwriter while writing such essays as The White Negro and Advertisements for Myself?
What author said that he got one of his book titles from an old Cockney expression, "He's as queer as a clockwork orange"?
William Sydney Porter wrote under O. Henry, which he is believed to have used as a tribute to Orrin Henry. Who was the original O. Henry?
Which of these wasn't one of the three musketeers' real names, but was the real name of the Cardinal Richelieu?
What novel is written from the perspective of Mr. Lockwood, a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, an isolated manor in Yorkshire?
Born in Bombay and named for a lake in Staffordshire, what writer is said to have spoken Hindi before English?
In what book does Christian make his way past the Slough of Despond, temptations like Vanity Fair, and foes like the Giant Despair, which inhabits Doubting Castle?
Who introduced Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County in the 1929 novel "Sartoris"?
What kind of animal was the hard-working Boxer, who was sent away for glue in "1984"?
What writer, whose own remains would be mistreated, supposedly turned his horse Aaron into a duffel bag?
What famous fictional character was born in 1632 in York, England?
In addition to visiting a host of imaginary countries, Gulliver also visits what real country, where he is asked to trample the crucifix?
F Scott Fitzgerald's critique of Ernest Hemingway's first novel led to him to cut the first 16 pages, so it opens with "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton." What book is this?
Per the book by John Fowles, and the subsequent movie adaptation, who was Sarah Woodruff?
Chapter Three of what classic American book describes a turtle crossing a road?
The people of Salinas at one point burned "The Grapes of Wrath" outside the library. Today, this city has a center dedicated to him as a tourist draw. Who?
While serving as a Civil War nurse, this writer contracted typhoid fever, which she treated with calomel. And the mercury in that drug killed her 20 years later. Who?
What writer died of peritonitis in Panama after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail party?
She spent much of her creative life in France, but who became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (then called "Novel"), thanks to "The Age of Innocence"?
What author of "Naked Lunch" would do cut-up experiments, in which he razored up other writers' work and rearranged it?
What writer survived the firebombing of Dresden, in which Allied planes killed as many as 135,000 people, and even inserted himself as a character in his novel about that experience?
All of these would be great names for cats. But which one is the name of a sardonic character who appears in the title of several of Saki's stories?
Caroline Meeber sleeps her way to the top in what Theodore Dreiser novel, published reluctantly by Frank Doubleday in 1900?
In The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad's sister is named for what mysterious flower, mentioned in Song of Solomon 2:1?
In what John Irving book does Dr Wilbur Larch run the St. Cloud orphanage in northern Maine in the 1920s?
Hadley Richardson married this writer in 1921, and the next year, she lost the only copy of his manuscript on a train to Switzerland. What writer was this?
Edgar Allan Poe's former home at 203 North Amity Street is now a museum dedicated to him. In what city?
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking 13. In what year?
The Nobel Foundations lists Nobel Prize winners by county, even if they decline the prize. Based on this list, what country has been home to the most Nobel literature laureates?
What famous fictional character did Simon Legree kill?
The Governor General's Award is the top award for Canadian fiction. The Pulitzer Prize is the top award in the US. What 1993 novel by Carol Shields is the only book to win them both?
What American writer moved to Canada in 1920 and worked for the Toronto Star, which sent him to Paris to cover the Greco-Turkish War?