The Brit Lit quiz: 10 questions by Fannie Dagenais

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Good old British literature

Who is David Copperfield's formidable aunt?

Miss Clara Pegotty
Miss Murdstone
Miss Betsey Trotwood
Mrs. Micawber

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Who wrote the poem «No coward soul is mine»?

Anne Brontë
Emily Brontë
William Shakespeare
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Who created amnesia suffering sleuth William Monk?

P.D. James
Anne Perry
Ellis Peters
Elizabeth Peters

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Sherlock Holmes adventures were first published...

By Penguin books
In the London Times
In a magazine: The Strand
by Oxford University Press

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Which novel features a ten-year-old chimney sweep named Tom who drowns in a pond?

The Water-babies
Oliver Twist
The Old Wives' Tale
Lord of the Flies

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What are Irie's roots in White Teeth?White Teeth

British dad, Bengali mum
Bengali Dad, Bengali mum
Jamaican mum, British dad
Welsh mum, dad unknown

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Name Shakespeare's original theatre?

The Glebe in Covent Garden
The Bard in Stratford-upon-Avon
The Royal Albert Hall in Knightsbridge
The Globe, London Southbank

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Who wrote the hilarious The Queen and I, a story about the British royal family living a "normal" life on an urban housing estate following a republican revolution?

Bill Bryson
Stephen Clarke
Sue Townsend
Peter Mayle

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Who declared «O, my luve's like a red, red rose/ That's newly sprung in June./ O, my luve is like the melodie/ That's sweetly played in tune.

Robert Burns
William Wordsworth
Lord Byron
Christopher Marlowe

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Which Bradford-born playwright is the author of «An Inspector calls»?

Somerset Maugham
Wilkie Collins
Tom Stoppard
J.B. Priestley

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