Famous Novels 2
Challenge your bookish trivia fans with an all new chapter in our trivia game series featuring famous novels.
15 questions · Published June 14, 2021
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What masterpiece of American literature largely takes place in East Egg and West Egg, two fictional islands situated in Nassau County, on Long Island?
FUN FACT
Today, the area that F. Scott Fitzgerald described in "The Great Gatsby" called West Egg is the Great Neck/Kings Point area on the north shore of Long Island. East Egg referred to what is today known as Port Washington/Sands Point.
- Multiple Choice
2. In such works as "Light in August" and "As I Lay Dying," what American author created and populated the fictional Yoknapatawpha County?
FUN FACT
Yoknapatawpha County is in William Faulkner's home state of Mississippi. During his career, he won two Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Fill In The Blank
3. In the title of the 1934 hard-boiled crime classic by James M. Cain, who "Always Rings Twice"?
"The Postman Always Rings Twice" is a 1934 crime novel by James M. Cain. The novel was successful and notorious upon publication. It is one of the more important crime novels of the 20th century. The novel's mix of sexuality and violence was startling in its time and caused it to be banned in Boston.
- Multiple Choice
4. What dystopian science-fiction classic popularized such terms as "doublethink," "thought police" and, most famously, "big brother"?
"Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel", often referred to as 1984, is a novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair).
Thematically, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" centers on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviors within society.
- Multiple Choice
5. What part of the United States does Harper Lee's classic novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" take place?
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