Literature Trivia Quiz

Correct answer: Robinson Crusoe.

Selkirk, a Scottish sailor, spent over four years marooned alone on a Pacific island, an ordeal widely seen as a model for Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel "Robinson Crusoe."

Correct answer: Marcellus.

The line is spoken by the watchman Marcellus, not by the prince.

Correct answer: George Bernard Shaw.

Shaw won the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature and a 1938 Oscar for the screenplay of "Pygmalion"; Bob Dylan later became the second person to hold both.

Correct answer: medicine.

Chekhov earned a medical degree in 1884 and kept practicing while he wrote, calling medicine his "lawful wife" and literature his "mistress."

Correct answer: Winston Churchill.

Churchill praised the book in his 1930 memoir "My Early Life," and the remark later became an entry in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations."

Correct answer: Dutch.

Anne wrote in Dutch; her father, Otto, had the diary published in the Netherlands in 1947 as "Het Achterhuis" ("The Secret Annex").

Correct answer: Anne Rice.

She renamed herself Anne as a child and later wrote "Interview with the Vampire" and the rest of the Vampire Chronicles.