Literature Quiz 4

1. Who is raised by his maternal uncle, Nikolai Vedenlapin, after his mother dies and he's abandoned by his alcoholic father?
Ans. Yuri Zhivago

2. This popular stage play turned film, set on a New England college campus, features a game called "Humiliate the Host." Who is the character who initiates the game?
Ans. Martha

3. What character, created by Charles Dickens, dies of spontaneous combustion?
Ans. Mr. Crook

4. The following taboo phrases were used by which writer?
"I fart at thee", "shit on your head', "dirty bastard"
Ans. Ben Johnson

5. Whose life ended in tragedy, in part, because the letter she slipped under the door went under the carpet, instead?
Ans. Tess Derbeyfield

6. When a new bride's honeymoon in Rome failed to go as planned, who took pity on her and became her second husband?
Ans. Will Ladislaw

7. Who sells his wife, Susan and baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane to a sailor for 5 guineas at a county fair?
Ans. Michael Henchard

8. Who consoled herself with writing after suffering a serious back injury while tightening the saddle on her horse?
Ans. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

9. This author said: "You'd have to kill me and prop me up in the seat of my car with a smile painted on my face to get me to go near Hollywood," but he enjoyed the 1982 film version of one of his novels just before he died. That film, now a classic, reduced the original six-word title to just two. Name the film.
Ans. Blade Runner

10. What novel centres on Anne Elliot's regret at having been talked out of marrying the man she loves?
Ans. Persuasion

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