A new series. Each quiz focuses on a specific genre with the questions in date order – a kind of potted history genre by genre.
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One of the earliest pieces of historical fiction is the classic epic poem The Iliad. Who wrote it?
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Homer
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Sophocles
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Finish the title of Luo Guanzhong’s novel, one of the pillars of Chinese literature: Romance of the Three —
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Kingdoms
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Dynasties
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Which of these is NOT one of Shakespeare’s Roman plays?
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Cymbeline
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Coriolanus
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Castle Rackrent is often regarded as the first historical novel in English, who wrote it?
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Maria Edgeworth
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Frances Burney
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Which novel by Scott had a large part to play in the Victorians’ interest in all things medieval and romantic?
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Ivanhoe
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The Lady of the Lake
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Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans is mainly set in the historic wilderness of which modern named state?
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New York
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Virginia
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The Three Musketeers by Dumas is set approximately how many years earlier?
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200
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100
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In Thackeray’s Vanity Fair where do the main characters travel to before the Battle of Waterloo?
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Brussels
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Lille
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Take of Two Cities is one of only two historical novels written by Charles Dickens. What is the other one?
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Barnaby Rudge
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Our Mutual Friend
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Tolstoy’s War and Peace tells the story of five families. Which one does NOT appear in the book: Tverskaya or Bolkonsky?
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Tverskaya
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Bolkonsky
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Who is the eponymous character in Hardy’s only historical novel, The Trumpet-Major?
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John Loveday
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Bob Garland
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Finish the title of Georgette Heyer’s first Georgian novel: The — Moth
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Black
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White
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In Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind what nickname does Melanie give to the daughter of Scarlett and Rhett?
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Bonnie
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Genie
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Who wrote the historical play The Life of Galileo?
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Bertolt Brecht
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Patrick Hamilton
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What was the first novel in Vidal’s Narratives of Empire series?
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Burr
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1776
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Eco’s The Name of the Rose was written in which language?
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Italian
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Spanish
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What is the name of Morpurgo’s War Horse?
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Joey
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Teddy
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In Faulks’ novel Birdsong what branch of the Army does Jack Firebrace serve in?
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Royal Engineers
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Artillery
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Roth’s The Plot Against America is an alternative history about the defeat of which American president by a right wing populist?
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FD Roosevelt
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JF Kennedy
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Mantel’s much anticipated The Mirror and the Light charts the final years of whose life?
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Thomas Cromwell
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Henry VIII
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