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Quiz: Lit-smart
1) There were seven vowels in the English script, five of them are still in use: A,E,I,O,U. What were the other two?
2) What is the name of the novel and its author in which you find the line: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”?
3) Who created the characters Peggoty, Pickwick and Pip?
4) In Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, what was Gulliver’s first name?
5) Can you name the novel and its author, which is set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and begins with the words: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”?
6) Grimm’s fairy tales are world famous. What were the names of the two Grimm brothers?
7) Which book begins with the words: “Call me Ishmael”?
8) Who was the creator of the first modern English dictionary?
9) What was Alfred Lord Tennyson referring to when he wrote in a poem: “All in the Valley of Death rode the six hundred”?
10) In which novel did the ship Hispaniola play a large part?
ANSWERS:
1) Y and a combination of A and E.
2) Animal Farm by George Orwell
3) Charles Dickens
4) Lemuel
5) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
6) Jacob and Wilhelm
7) Moby Dick by Herman Melville
8) Dr Samuel Johnson
9) The Crimean War in the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade
10) Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
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