READING QUIZ

 

Hand in your entries to Julie Forrester or Eric Mok by Saturday, 27th May, and you could win a prize! You can also return your answers by e-mail to jforrester@chuhai.edu.hk

 

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1. What is your favourite book? Summarise the story in ONE sentence.

 

2. Name a book character that is just like someone you know (your father / sister / friend, etc.) and explain why.

 

 

3. Which is the best film made from a book? Tell us why.

 

 

4. Where is the best place to be when you are reading, and why?

 

 

5. Which character from a book would you like to be, and why?

 

 

Test your knowledge of Literature

 

1.        Which of the following is not generally regarded as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies?

a.        Hamlet  b. Romeo and Juliet  c. Othello  d. Macbeth

 

2.        A sonnet is a poem that is made up of __________.

a.        10 lines  b. 12 lines  c. 14 lines  d. 16 lines

 

3.        Who is the author of Pride and Prejudice?

a.        Jane Austen  b. William Blake  c. Wilkie Collins  d. Charles Dickens

 

4.        Which of the following was not written by Charles Dickens?

a.        The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  b. Bleak House  c. A Christmas Carol  d. David Copperfield

 

5.        Which writer became a poet after publishing extensively as a novelist?

a.        T. S. Eliot  b. E. M. Forster  c. George Gissing  d. Thomas Hardy

 

6.        Who of the following is not known as a horror stories writer?

a.        M. R. James  b. Stephen King  c. H. P. Lovecraft  d. Thomas Mann

 

7.        Who is the author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy?

a.        Lewis Carroll  b. C. S. Lewis  c. Philip Pullman  d. J. R. R. Tolkien

 

8.        Which novel is set in the city of Dublin, Ireland?

a.   James Joyce’s Ulysses  b. Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis  c. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers  d. W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence

 

9.        The film The Hours was inspired by __________.

a.        Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto  b. Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray      c. William Wordsworth’s The Prelude  d. Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

 

10.     Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was written by __________.

11.     Hayao Miyazaki’s film Howl’s Moving Castle is based on the book bearing the same name by ___.

a.        Hans Christian Andersen  b. Roald Dahl  c. Diana Wynne Jones  d. J. K. Rowling

 

12.     The film Troy is based on __________.

a.   Dante’s Inferno  b. Homer’s The Illiad  c. Plato’s The Republic  d. Virgil’s Aeneid