High School English
Time to dust off your grammar skills and brush up on the reading list with this trivia game featuring high school level English class skills.
15 questions · Published August 12, 2024
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What dictatorial leader "watches" over citizens in George Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?
The idea of "Big Brother," introduced in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), has since become a common phrase used to describe government overreach and authoritarianism.
- Multiple Choice
2. Who wrote the commonly-assigned-in-high-school-English collection of stories "The Canterbury Tales"?
FUN FACT
Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is often credited with popularizing English vernacular in mainstream literature.
- Multiple Choice
3. John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Grapes of Wrath" follows the _______ family's move out of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression.
FUN FACT
Hollywood legend Henry Fonda nabbed a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Tom Joad in the 1940 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939).
- Multiple Choice
4. Which of these words is an example of a gerund?
A gerund is an "-ing" verb that acts as a noun, as in "Running doesn't seem like that fun an activity."
- Fill In The Blank
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald sets his Jazz Age novel "The Great Gatsby" in the fictional Long Island villages of East and West _______.
Fitzgerald's East and West Egg Long Island villages represent old and new money, respectively, in his beloved novel "The Great Gatsby" (1925).
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