BOOKS & LITERATURE

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What was Stephen King’s career before he was an international bestselling author? Do you know your Beat Generation writers? Put you bookish skills to the test with these questions. When you are ready, tap or click anywhere on each card to reveal the answer.

Which city is the setting of the novel The Catcher in the Rye?

New York City

Who in 2016 was the first musician to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?

Bob Dylan

What literary term means a long poem about heroic deeds?

Epic

Name two of the four main characters in The Great Gatsby?

Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan or Tom Buchanan

What city is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set in?

Verona

How many novels did Charles Dickens write?

What job did George Orwell leave in 1927 to try his luck as a full-time writer?

Police officer

In which year was J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit first published?

1937

What novel features a boy who survives for 227 days on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger?

Life of Pi

What is the title of Khaled Hosseini’s novel following the lives of Amir and Hassan in Afghanistan?

The Kite Runner

Who is the main character in Hunter S. Thompson’s novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

Raoul Duke

Which British mystery writer was married to Sir Max Mallowan, a prominent archaeologist?

Agatha Christie

Which country did Ernest Hemingway live in longer than anywhere else?

Cuba

What are the first names of the four siblings in The Chronicles of Narnia?

Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy

Which Harry Potter novel is the fastest-selling book in history, with over 8 million copies sold in the first 24 hours?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

What was Stephen King’s career before he found fame as an author?

High school teacher

What was Mark Twain’s real name?

Samuel Clemens

Who is the narrator in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

Jean Louise “Scout” Finch

What is the title of Jane Austen’s final novel, which she never finished?

Sanditon

Which Beat Generation author wrote On the Road?

Jack Kerouac