Comments on: Literature quizzes

By: imani

imani — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:01:03 +0000

Ha! You’re welcome and thank you for getting that confirmed. Jacques the Fatalist made me something of a Diderot fan.

By: Beepy

Beepy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:40:43 +0000

After I posted, I checked it out on Amazon. It is “The Nun” and it has gone directly to the top of my reading list.

Thanks for posting this quiz. It’s a lot of fun.

By: imani

imani — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:31:53 +0000

Thanks for the contributions, Dorothy. I would never have gotten those since I don’t know much details about them.

verbivore whatever it is applies to me too as those were the easiest for me to answer, as well.

Beepy ooo, I’ve never read it either but it sounds like something he would write, as the description doesn’t make the novel sound particularly pious.

By: Beepy

Beepy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:08:41 +0000

As for 3.1, has anyone read Diderot’s “The Nun”? I haven’t, but it just came to mind as a possibility.

By: verbivore

verbivore — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:42:52 +0000

3.1 is a toughie – would love to have known that one off the top of my head. hmmm
Does it say something about me that the monsters were the easiest?

By: Dorothy W.

Dorothy W. — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:22:12 +0000

Section 1.4 I’m pretty sure is Mrs. Ramsay from Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. 3.3 I think is Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield. I think that’s all I can add …

By: imani

imani — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:45:55 +0000

Yes! I knew that one was Joyce but couldn’t figure if it was Ulysses or Fineggans Wake. Can’t confirm the rest for you. Haven’t read Dickens in any ages.

Btw, I’m dying to know what 3.1 (thanks for the neater version, Elizabeth) is. As soon as I find out I’ll check it out. I have an undeveloped thing for convent novels. (“Land of Spices” and “Paulina 1880″ — “The Italian” doesn’t really count for me, too silly.)

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:08:33 +0000

1.3 – Leopold Bloom in Joyce’s Ulysses.

4.2 – A Tale of Two Cities?
4.3 – Red Badge of Courage?
4.5 – Something by Clauswitz?

By: imani

imani — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:42:08 +0000

I figured that one had to be Dumas or Hugo but I’ve yet to read either. And for that Section 5 book…I considered Lawrence as an answer but for some reason I stuck to the idea that it had to be some kind of feminist text — except that I couldn’t think of any that had been banned.

As for the Pinocchio answer — good one! I forgot that he was Italian. Also, for me puppets + literature = French Symbolists and I couldn’t shake the assumption to think of anything related to Italians.

By: Beepy

Beepy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:50:29 +0000

Is the answer to Section 4 #2 Jean Valjean from “Les Miserables”?