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Quiz – Literary Events Timeline (5) 1840-1849

Quiz – Literary Events Timeline (5) 1840-1849

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

    1840 – Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop began publication, what is the name of the main antagonist in the novel?

    • Quilp
    • Gride
  • Question of

    1840 – ‘If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.’ Which French writer was born in Paris on April 2nd?

    • Emile Zola
    • Gustave Flaubert
  • Question of

    1841 – Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge has one of the most famous pets in English literature in it, Grip. What type of animal is it?

    • Raven
    • Deer
  • Question of

    1841 – What is the name of the narrator of Poe’s ground breaking story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue?

    • Unnamed
    • C Auguste Dupin
  • Question of

    1842 – Browning’s famous poem My Last Duchess is set in which country?

    • Italy
    • France
  • Question of

    1842 – Charles Dickens publishes his first travelogue after his extensive travels in which country?

    • America
    • Italy
  • Question of

    1843 – Two brothers from Scotland founded which famous publishers in this year?

    • Macmillan
    • Penguin
  • Question of

    1843 – In A Christmas Carol who is Scrooge’s only living relative?

    • His nephew, Fred
    • His sister, Fan
  • Question of

    1844 – Which of Dumas’ Musketeers was formerly married to their arch enemy, Milady?

    • Athos
    • Porthos
  • Question of

    1844 – Thackeray’s The Luck of Barry Lyndon begins in which country?

    • Ireland
    • France
  • Question of

    1845 – Which American social reformer and abolitionist published their memoirs in this year?

    • Frederick Douglass
    • Harriet Tubman
  • Question of

    1845 – Which of Poe’s works begins, ‘Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary…’

    • The Raven
    • Annabel Lee
  • Question of

    1846 – The Brontë sisters’ first published work, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell appeared. How many copies did it sell in its first year?

    • 2
    • 12
  • Question of

    1846 – In Dickens’ Dombey and Son, the antagonist Mr Carker is often likened to which animal?

    • A cat
    • A magpie
  • Question of

    1847 – All 3 Brontë sisters publish novels in this year. Which one does Charlotte have published?

    • Jane Eyre
    • Shirley
  • Question of

    1847 – Which famous work of this year is subtitled: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society?

    • Vanity Fair
    • Middlemarch
  • Question of

    1848 – The first paperbacks are published but not called that for many years. What are they known as?

    • Yellow-backs
    • Chrome editions
  • Question of

    1848 – The Communist Manifesto is published by Karl Marx and which other philosopher?

    • Friedrich Engels
    • Georg Hegel
  • Question of

    1849 – Which Dickens protagonist is introduced to the world in chapter 1 entitled I Am Born?

    • David Copperfield
    • Amy Dorrit
  • Question of

    1849 – Which Brontë sister died in May of this year and was buried in Scarborough, the only sister not buried in Haworth?

    • Anne
    • Emily

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