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Quiz – Literary Events Timeline (4) 1830-1839

Quiz – Literary Events Timeline (4) 1830-1839

A new series beginning in 1800.
Beginning in the early years of the novel – as we know and love it – each quiz covers a decade of literary events – 2 questions per year. Births, deaths, publications, events; fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays and books for children.

  • Question of

    1830 – ‘The brain is wider than the sky.’ Which great American poet was born in Massachusetts on December 10th?

    • Emily Dickinson
    • Walt Whitman
  • Question of

    1830 – Finish the title of this Mary Shelley novel: The — of Perkin Warbeck

    • Fortunes
    • Tribulations
  • Question of

    1831 – The Hunchback of Notre Dame is published – what is the name of the love of the eponymous character?

    • Esmeralda
    • Phoebe
  • Question of

    1831 – Edgar Allan Poe published 6 works in this year – which genre were they in?

    • Poetry
    • Short stories
  • Question of

    1832 – ‘”Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast”’. Which author was born in Cheshire on January 27th?

    • Lewis Carroll
    • George Eliot
  • Question of

    1832 – Which 1862 French novel climaxes with this year’s June Rebellion in Paris?

    • Les Miserables
    • Germinal
  • Question of

    1833 – On December 1st a short story called A Dinner at Poplar Walk was the first published work by which great author?

    • Charles Dickens
    • Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Question of

    1833 – Which famous poem begins, ‘On either side the river lie/Long fields of barley and of rye…’

    • The Lady of Shallot
    • My Last Duchess
  • Question of

    1834 – ‘Alone, alone, all, all alone/Alone on a wide wide sea!’ Which poet died on July 25th?

    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • George Gordon Byron
  • Question of

    1834 – Finish the title of this short story by Aleksandr Pushkin: The Queen of —

    • Spades
    • Diamonds
  • Question of

    1835 – One of America’s most famous writers, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was born in Missouri on November 30th. What was his pen name?

    • Mark Twain
    • Henry James
  • Question of

    1835 – Hans Christian Andersen’s first Fairy Tales Told for Children were published. Which one appeared in the first of 61 installments: The Princess and the Pea or The Little Mermaid?

    • The Princess and the Pea
    • The Little Mermaid
  • Question of

    1836 – Pickwick Papers, Dickens’ first novel, begins serialisation. What is the first name of the eponymous Mr Pickwick, Esquire?

    • Samuel
    • Edward
  • Question of

    1836 – Which of Browning’s dramatic poems ends with the lines, ‘And all night long we have not stirred/And yet God has not said a word!’

    • Porphyria’s Lover
    • The Ring and the Book
  • Question of

    1837 – How was the great Russian poet Pushkin killed on Jan 29th?

    • In a duel
    • Poisoned
  • Question of

    1837 – Dickens’ second novel begins publication. It was subtitled The Parish Boy’s Progress. What is its main title?

    • Oliver Twist
    • David Copperfield
  • Question of

    1838 – Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was published. Why is it unique amongst his writing?

    • It was his only novel
    • It was written in verse
  • Question of

    1838 – Dickens’ third novel, Nicholas Nickleby, introduces the world to the schoolmaster of nightmares. What is his name?

    • Wackford Squeers
    • Mr M’Choakumchild
  • Question of

    1839 – Charles Darwin published The Voyage of the Beagle, 20 years before his revolutionary work which changed the world. Where did The Beagle travel to?

    • Galápagos Islands
    • Fiji
  • Question of

    1839 – Which 1922 children’s novel by Hugh Lofting is set in this year?

    • The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
    • The Midnight Folk

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