Art & Literature Questions

Try these 10 questions to test your knowledge of Art & Literature.

1. From which book or play do we get the line: “All happy families are alike…”

 
 
 
 
 

2. What novel features the characters Pip, Miss Havisham, and Estella?

 
 
 
 
 

3. Which 18th Century Anglo-Irish playwright wrote School For Scandal in 1777?

 
 
 
 
 

4. Thomas Hardy’s grave lies alongside Charles Dickens in Westminster Abbey.  But which part of his body was taken to be buried in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in Dorset?

 
 
 
 
 

5. What symbolic object appears at the feet of the wife in Jan van Eyck’s “The Arnolfini Portrait”?

 
 
 
 
 

6. Which author wrote the 1980 bestselling novel “The Name of the Rose “?

 
 
 
 
 

7. Which famous novel was originally written as a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird but was published decades later?

 
 
 
 
 

8. In what year did Lewis Carroll first write the story that he would later publish as “Alice in Wonderland”?

 
 
 
 
 

9. Which famous playwright is commemorated in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey despite having no university degree?

 
 
 
 
 

10. In which country did the Impressionist movement begin?

 
 
 
 
 

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