1. Which of these fictional captains has a leg missing:
(a) Captain Hook (b) Captain Ahab (c) Captain Nemo?

2. In what story does a character known as the "Headless Horseman" appear?

3. These characters are all notable for what common characteristic?
(a) Lady Godiva (b) Absalom (c) Rapunzel (d) Samson

4. Which of the following novels has the smallest number of principal characters:
(a) Moby Dick (b) Robinson Crusoe (c) David Copperfield (d) To Kill a Mockingbird?

5. Edward Rochester is violent and moody because of his marriage to an insane wife. But he really loves a governess. Can you name her?

6. Maid Marian is a close friend of
(a) Robin Hood (b) King Arthur (c) William Tell (d) Rip van Winkle.

7. Regarded by many one of the most popular and fundamental statements of the Beat Movement, name the work that includes these characters: Dean Moriarity, Carlo Marx and Sal Paradise.

8. Which character was not created by Tennessee Williams?
(a) Blanche DuBois (c) Nick Carraway (c) Laura Wingfield (d) Stanley Kowalski

9. Can you identify the character "with a pleasing manner but a positively startling lack of brain" created by A.A. Milne.

10. Who created these imaginary races: Lilliputians; Brobdingnagians; Laputans; Yahoos?

 

ANSWERS

1. Captain Ahab, a character in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick' Captain Hook is the pirate captain in Barrie's Peter Pan. Captain Nemo is the hero of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the sea.

2. Legend of Sleepy Hollow

3. Hair

4. (b) Robinson Crusoe. It is the story of Robinson Crusoe who is stranded on an uninhabited island. There is only one other character , Man Friday.

5. Jane Eyre, heroine of the novel of that name, by Charlotte Bronte. She marries Rochester in the end when he has become blind in vainly trying to save his wife from his burning house.

Ans: (a) She appears as a companion of Robin Hood in the later forms of the story of the outlaw.

7. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac. The novel tells of a group of friends travelling around America in search of new and intense experiences.

Ans: (b) Nick Carraway

9. Winnie the Pooh

10. Jonathan Swift. Each of these races appear in the four section of his classic Gulliver's Travels in the same order.