Enjoy this quick quiz. Answers below.

1. Which of the following is the protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye?

* Charles Darnay
* Holden Caufield
* Phillip Pirrip
* Nick Carraway

2. Which surname belongs to a trio of literary sisters?

* Brown
* Burns
* Barrett
* Bronte

3. Which of the following is NOT a work of William Shakespeare?

* Titus Andronicus
* Julius Caesar
* Mourning Becomes Electra
* Love’s Labours Lost

4. In the phrase, “If I were to never see you again…” the speaker is guilty of…

* a split infinitive
* a dangling modifier
* a misplaced modifier
* an unqualified superlative

5. Which of the following authors was NOT primarily a poet?

* Walt Whitman
* T.S. Eliot
* e.e. cummings
* Henry James

6. Which of the following authors was NOT a contemporary of the others?

* Gertrude Stein
* Ernest Hemingway
* John Milton
* F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. Who, once called “The little lady who started a big war,” by Abraham Lincoln, authored Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

* Harriet Beecher Stowe
* Charlotte Bronte
* Emile Zola
* Hilda Doolittle

8. Which woman, author of Mules and Men and Their Eyes were Watching God, was rediscovered by Alice Walker?

* Toni Morrison
* Nadine Gordimer
* Zora Neale Hurston
* Isak Dennison

9. What Dickens’ novel begins, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times?”

* Hard Times
* A Tale of Two Cities
* Nicholas Nickleby
* Great Expectations

10. What word, repeated three times, begins the speech from which William Faulkner took the title for The Sound and The Fury?

*Tomorrow
*Yesterday
*Today
*Someday

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ANSWERS:
1. Holden Caufield
2. Bronte
3. Mourning Becomes Electra
4. split infinitive
5. Henry James
6. John Milton
7. Harriet Beecher Stowe
8. Zora Neale Hurston
9. Tale of Two Cities
10.Tomorrow