Can You Identify the Classic Book?

There are books and there are BOOKS. Novels that rocked the literary world. Do you know your classic books? Are you a voracious reader or at least familiar with the great works of literature? This quiz will be all you need to prove it...
 
 
A noble (hidalgo) from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become a knight-errant.
Don Quixote
The Canterbury Tales
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Scarlet Letter
 
 
The obsessive quest of a sea captain following a white whale.
Moby Dick
War and Peace
A Tale of Two Cities
The Old Man and the Sea
 
 
The poetic story of the ancient War of Troy.
The Illiad
The Aeneid
The Odyssey
Dante's Inferno
 
 
The mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who formulates a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money.
Crime and Punishment
Madame Bovary
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
 
 
A girl finds herself in a mysterious land after her house is blown away by a tornado.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Wizard of Oz
The Secret Garden
The Cat in the Hat
 
 
Two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, Holden searches for truth and rails against the “phoniness” of the adult world.
Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
Anna Karenina
Catch-22
 
 
The character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Villette
 
 
The story primarily concerns a young and mysterious millionaire and his quixotic passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan.
The Great Gatsby
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Pride and Prejudice
Madame Bovary
 
 
A dystopian society keeps citizens ignorant of history and current events and watches everything they do.
Nineteen Eighty Four
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
The Handmaid's Tale
 
 
The story of Pip, an orphan boy adopted by a blacksmith's family, who has good luck and then loses his luck. Through this rise and fall, however, Pip learns how to find happiness.
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
Hard Times
 
 
The story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader.
The Trial
Metamorphosis
The Castle
The Judgement
 
 
Chronicling the experiences of Jake Barnes and several acquaintances on their pilgrimage to Pamplona.
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
A Moveable Feast
For Whom the Bell Tolls
 
 
After 19 years as a prisoner, Jean Valjean is freed by Javert, the officer in charge of the prison workforce. Valjean promptly breaks parole but later uses money from stolen silver to reinvent himself as a mayor and factory owner. Javert vows to bring Valjean back to prison.
Les Misérables
The Flowers of Evil
Madam Bovary
The Count of Monte Cristo
 
 
A group of boys finds themselves on a remote island without adults.
Lord of the Flies
Castaway
The Trouble With Paradise
Wrecked
 
 
Set in Jonesboro and Atlanta, Georgia during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of an Irish immigrant plantation owner.
Gone With the Wind
Dances With Wolves
A Streetcar Named Desire
Death of a Salesman
Time to Read More Books
We're afraid to say you failed this test. This may mean you just haven't had read many classics. It could also mean you don't read much at all. These books are classics for a reason, and we recommend you pick up at least one of them and see for yourself what all the hoopla is about! Also, have a look at the answers to learn a bit about each book and decide if it sounds interesting to you, and you'd like to read it. We promise you - these books sure return the investment!
You Should Read More Classics
You didn't fail, which means you knew a few of these books. But you still got less than half of the classic books correctly, which means you may have some room in your life for reading some really REALLY terrific books. This doesn't mean you're not a reader or that you don't read modern books, but these are classics for a reason, and we do recommend trying them out. Have a look at the answers to learn more about them.
Great Job!
You did an outstanding job identifying the correct book, which means you not only have knowledge of some of the big classics but a great memory besides! We're super proud to have readers on our website. Continue to read classic literature; there's a reason these books are classics. Convince others to read them as well; everyone should know the classics! You still had a few mistakes, so have a look at the answers to learn more about the ones you missed.
Your Mind is a Library
Wow, you really ACED this test! Your knowledge of literary classics is astounding. In a perfect world, everyone would know them just as well, but that is not the world we are living in. We're super impressed and are excited to have such knowledgeable people on our website! Make sure you tell other people about these classics and get them to read some for themselves; we must all encourage new minds to discover them. Way to go, we bow before your superior knowledge!
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