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Literature Quiz
Literature Quiz: dive into great literary works with free questions, no sign-up required. Instant results, share your score with friends!
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From Baudelaire to Jane Austen, by way of Sartre and Racine, this quiz explores the great authors, movements and works that have shaped literature. A fun way to test your literary knowledge.
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- Charles Baudelaire described his deep melancholy with the word "spleen," which gave its title to part of The Flowers of Evil.
- In Racine's Britannicus, Nero was not the biological son of Emperor Claudius, but his adopted son through his mother Agrippina's remarriage.
- "Stream of consciousness," first theorised in psychology by William James, is a narrative technique reproducing a character's disordered flow of thoughts.
- Published in 1813, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice gave rise to one of the most beloved female characters in English literature, Elizabeth Bennet.
This quiz currently has 111 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French and English.
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