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Which novel by John Steinbeck was published in 1937?

2Of Mice and Men

1The Grapes of Wrath

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John Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men tells the touching story of two itinerant workers during the Great Depression.

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John Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men tells the touching story of two itinerant workers during the Great Depression.

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Which novel character was created by Gaston Leroux in 1907?

2Joseph Rouletabille

1Herlock Sholmès

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The novel character created in 1907 by Gaston Leroux is Joseph Rouletabille, the young reporter-detective who appears in The Mystery of the Yellow Room.

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The novel character created in 1907 by Gaston Leroux is Joseph Rouletabille, the young reporter-detective who appears in The Mystery of the Yellow Room.

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What is the title of the film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird released in 1962?

1Silence and shadows

2When the nightingale dies

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The 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel is To Kill a Mockingbird.

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The 1962 film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel is To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Which Russian writer wrote the novel Crime and Punishment in 1866?

1Fiodor Dostoïevski

2Léon Tolstoï

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Nineteenth-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote the novel Crime and Punishment, published in 1866, which explores the psychology of a murderer in search of redemption.

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Nineteenth-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote the novel Crime and Punishment, published in 1866, which explores the psychology of a murderer in search of redemption.

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When was Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray published?

2Victorian Era

1Edwardian Era

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Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in 1890, in the Victorian era, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

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Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published in 1890, in the Victorian era, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

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In which village is Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude set?

2Macondo

1Aracataca

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Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is set in the fictional village of Macondo, founded by the Buendía family in Colombia.

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Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is set in the fictional village of Macondo, founded by the Buendía family in Colombia.

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What's Madame Bovary's first name?

1Emma

2Virginie

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Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) recounts the quest of Emma Bovary, married to a provincial doctor, to escape boredom through adventure and excessive luxury.

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Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857) recounts the quest of Emma Bovary, married to a provincial doctor, to escape boredom through adventure and excessive luxury.

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Who is the main character in J. D. Salinger's American novel Catcher in the Rye?

1Holden Caulfield

2Teddy McArdle

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Catcher in the Rye is a novel by the American J. D. Salinger published on July 16, 1951. Written in the first person, it relates three days in the life of Holden Caulfield. The teenager is expelled from Pencey Prep High School on the eve of Christmas holidays and wanders alone in New York City.

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Catcher in the Rye is a novel by the American J. D. Salinger published on July 16, 1951. Written in the first person, it relates three days in the life of Holden Caulfield. The teenager is expelled from Pencey Prep High School on the eve of Christmas holidays and wanders alone in New York City.

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Who is the author of the science fiction short story collection Martian Chronicles?

1Ray Bradbury

2Orson Welles

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Martian Chronicles is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Ray Bradbury, first published in the United States in 1950 by Doubleday.

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Martian Chronicles is a collection of science fiction short stories by American author Ray Bradbury, first published in the United States in 1950 by Doubleday.

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To which cycle does the novel The Plague by Albert Camus, published in 1947, belong?

2The cycle of revolt

1The cycle of absurd

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The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1947 and receiving the Critics' Prize the same year. It belongs to the cycle of revolt bringing together three works by Camus, The Plague, The Revolted Man and The Righteous, which in part enabled its author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

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The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1947 and receiving the Critics' Prize the same year. It belongs to the cycle of revolt bringing together three works by Camus, The Plague, The Revolted Man and The Righteous, which in part enabled its author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

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