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Quiz – Genres Timeline Historical Fiction

A new series. Each quiz focuses on a specific genre with the questions in date order – a kind of potted history genre by genre.

  • Question of

    One of the earliest pieces of historical fiction is the classic epic poem The Iliad. Who wrote it?

    • Homer
    • Sophocles
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Luo Guanzhong’s novel, one of the pillars of Chinese literature: Romance of the Three —

    • Kingdoms
    • Dynasties
  • Question of

    Which of these is NOT one of Shakespeare’s Roman plays?

    • Cymbeline
    • Coriolanus
  • Question of

    Castle Rackrent is often regarded as the first historical novel in English, who wrote it?

    • Maria Edgeworth
    • Frances Burney
  • Question of

    Which novel by Scott had a large part to play in the Victorians’ interest in all things medieval and romantic?

    • Ivanhoe
    • The Lady of the Lake
  • Question of

    Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans is mainly set in the historic wilderness of which modern named state?

    • New York
    • Virginia
  • Question of

    The Three Musketeers by Dumas is set approximately how many years earlier?

    • 200
    • 100
  • Question of

    In Thackeray’s Vanity Fair where do the main characters travel to before the Battle of Waterloo?

    • Brussels
    • Lille
  • Question of

    Take of Two Cities is one of only two historical novels written by Charles Dickens. What is the other one?

    • Barnaby Rudge
    • Our Mutual Friend
  • Question of

    Tolstoy’s War and Peace tells the story of five families. Which one does NOT appear in the book: Tverskaya or Bolkonsky?

    • Tverskaya
    • Bolkonsky
  • Question of

    Who is the eponymous character in Hardy’s only historical novel, The Trumpet-Major?

    • John Loveday
    • Bob Garland
  • Question of

    Finish the title of Georgette Heyer’s first Georgian novel: The — Moth

    • Black
    • White
  • Question of

    In Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind what nickname does Melanie give to the daughter of Scarlett and Rhett?

    • Bonnie
    • Genie
  • Question of

    Who wrote the historical play The Life of Galileo?

    • Bertolt Brecht
    • Patrick Hamilton
  • Question of

    What was the first novel in Vidal’s Narratives of Empire series?

    • Burr
    • 1776
  • Question of

    Eco’s The Name of the Rose was written in which language?

    • Italian
    • Spanish
  • Question of

    What is the name of Morpurgo’s War Horse?

    • Joey
    • Teddy
  • Question of

    In Faulks’ novel Birdsong what branch of the Army does Jack Firebrace serve in?

    • Royal Engineers
    • Artillery
  • Question of

    Roth’s The Plot Against America is an alternative history about the defeat of which American president by a right wing populist?

    • FD Roosevelt
    • JF Kennedy
  • Question of

    Mantel’s much anticipated The Mirror and the Light charts the final years of whose life?

    • Thomas Cromwell
    • Henry VIII

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