Test Your Knowledge!!

Most readers, myself included, like to collect useless bits of information about books and authors for future use.

When asked to submit questions for the church trivia night, here’s what I came up with. How many can you answer?

1. Whose sonnets were written in iambic pentameter?
2. What was the scarlet letter that Hester Prynne was forced to wear?
3. “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times” is the opening line of which novel by Charles Dickens?
4. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a poem about what black bird?
5. Name the two hobbits who had possession of the ring.
6. In The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, what was the name of the mongoose?
7. John Grisham’s novels deal mainly with the _______ profession.
8. Mr. Darcy was a character in which of Jane Austen’s novels?
9. The author of The Glass Menagerie had close ties to the St. Louis area. Who was he?
10. Who wrote, “Good fences make good neighbors”?

Bonus: William Sydney Porter wrote the The Gift of the Magi. He is better known by what pen name?

Don’t Peek!!  Answers can be found below.

1.   William Shakespeare

2.  A

3.  Tale of Two Cities

4.  the raven

5.  Bilbo and Frodo.  Technically Gollum was a hobbit and had possession of the ring until Bilbo found it.

6. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

7.  legal or law

8.  Pride and Prejudice

9. Tennessee Williams

10. Robert Frost

Bonus:  O. Henry