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  Miss Marian Halcombe is described as:
The Woman in White William "Wilkie" Collins 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 383 times
Correct: 265 times (40.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 118 times (18.1%)
Skipped: 270 times (41.3%)
  About which 19th-century novelist did Dorothy Parker write this little poem: "Who call him spurious and shoddy / Shall do it o'er my lifeless body. / I heartily invite such birds / To come outside and say those words!" see if you know the answer
Answered: 144 times
Correct: 65 times (31.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 79 times (38.0%)
Skipped: 64 times (30.8%)
  Can you name the British author who was Charles Dickens' friend and collaborator and was addicted to laudanum? (He took this form of opium to stave off the effects of arthritis.) see if you know the answer
Answered: 125 times
Correct: 73 times (44.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 52 times (31.7%)
Skipped: 39 times (23.8%)
  To which of these writers did Robert Louis Stevenson refer to as "the Prince of Men" in one of his little poems?
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Answered: 118 times
Correct: 48 times (22.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 70 times (32.1%)
Skipped: 100 times (45.9%)
  Who was such a close friend to Charles Dickens that he was called "the Dickensian ampersand?" see if you know the answer
Answered: 6305 times
Correct: 3341 times (49.4%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 2964 times (43.8%)
Skipped: 455 times (6.7%)
  Which famous 19th-century novelist also wrote travel journalism such as North America, Australia and New Zealand and South Africa in an attempt to improve his finances? see if you know the answer
Answered: 84 times
Correct: 33 times (25.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 51 times (39.5%)
Skipped: 45 times (34.9%)
  True or false: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins was originally published as a serial. see if you know the answer
Answered: 163 times
Correct: 150 times (68.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 13 times (5.9%)
Skipped: 57 times (25.9%)
  In what book by Wilkie Collins will you find the following characters:

Anne Catherick
Laura Fairlie
Count Fosco
Marian Halcombe
Walter Hartright 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 91 times
Correct: 71 times (51.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 20 times (14.6%)
Skipped: 46 times (33.6%)
  Which one of these, now virtually forgotten but once immensely popular, Victorian novelists wrote what is now known as "sea novels", which were much admired by the likes of Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway, and served as models for the work of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester? see if you know the answer
Answered: 62 times
Correct: 37 times (40.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 25 times (27.2%)
Skipped: 30 times (32.6%)

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