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Hard Literature Quiz: From Elizabethan Drama to 21st-Century Prose

A concise, challenging test for seasoned readers covering major works and critical movements.

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Quiz Questions

Answer all questions below and test your knowledge.

1
Which character delivers the line “Nothing will come of nothing” in Shakespeare’s tragedy?
Question 1
2
In Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, who is the protagonist who wrestles with moral guilt?
Question 2
3
Who wrote the 1978 poetry collection titled The Sea is History?
Question 3
4
Which novel, published in 1922, is considered a seminal work of modernist stream-of-consciousness and famously begins with the line Stately, plump Buck Mulligan…?
Question 4
5
The term intertextuality was popularized by which French literary critic?
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6
Who is the author of the 2000 experimental novel that employs multiple narrators and footnote labyrinths titled House of Leaves?
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