Fictional Characters

A recent addition to the CredoReference database is the "Chambers Dictionary of Fictional Characters". All the answers to this quiz about people in books can be found there.

1. Which writer created the character Bilbo Baggins?                                  J. R. R. Tolkien.
2. Name the heroine of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", who falls in love with Darcy.                                                                            Elizabeth Bennet.
3. Which 1851 book by Herman Melville includes a character called Queequeg?
   Moby-Dick.
4. In Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim", what was the surname of Jim, the struggling university lecturer of the title?                                            Dixon.
5. Which novel by Charles Dickens includes the character Little Nell?                                                                                            The Old Curiosity Shop.
6. Which 1951 novel features a rebellious 16-year-old called Holden Caulfield?                                                                                      The Catcher in the Rye.
7. Name one of the two children - a brother and sister - who are the young governess's two charges at Bly in Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw".                                                                                        Miles or Flora.
8. Which author created the character Professor Timofey Pnin in his 1957 novel "Pnin"?                                                                           Vladimir Nabokov.
9. What are the names of the two "merry wives" in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?                                                                       Alice Ford and Margaret Page.
10. Claudia Hampton is a character in which 1987 novel by Penelope Lively?                                                                                       Moon Tiger.

Questions set by Tony Augarde, author of "The Oxford Guide to Word Games"

How did you do?

0 - 1    Mmmm, not exactly brilliant.
2 - 5    A reasonable stab.
6 - 8    A good showing. But there's still room for improvement!
9 - 10  You really know your stuff. Well done!