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The Ultimate Classic Authors Quiz: 65 Flashcards

June 30, 2023 • Brainscape

Welcome to the ultimate Classic Authors quiz featuring Brainscape’s flashcards (https://www.brainscape.com) from our ‘Get Smarter’ collection of general knowledge flashcards! Find those (and more literature flashcards) here:

https://www.brainscape.com/learn/get-smarter
https://www.brainscape.com/subjects/english/ (User-generated English literature flashcards)
https://www.brainscape.com/subjects/english/classic-novels/ (User-generated classic novels flashcards)

In this video, we'll test your smarts with a selection of questions and answers that cover a wide range of the world’s most beloved, classic literature and authors. Some of the questions covered include:

0:15 - Which 10th and 11th-century Japanese author wrote what is widely considered to be the world’s first novel, ‘The tale of Genji’?

1:25 - Which German author and politician wrote the two-part play ‘Faust’, considered to be Germany’s greatest contribution to world literature?

2:25 - Which French Romantic author wrote ‘Les Misérables’ and ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’?

3:27 - Which American abolitionist, author, philosopher, and transcendentalist wrote the famous essay ‘Civil Disobedience’ and the book ‘Walden’?

4:34 - Which English author wrote ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’?

5:34 - Which English author and poet wrote ‘The Jungle Book’?

6:28 - Which pioneering female novelist wrote ‘To the Lighthouse’, ‘Mrs Dalloway’, and ‘Orlando’?

7:32 - Which American author wrote ‘The Sound and the Fury’, ‘As I Lay Dying’, and ‘Sanctuary’?

8:40 - Which French existentialist, feminist writer, and philosopher is most famous for the treatise ‘The Second Sex’ and the novels ‘Les Mandarins’ and ‘L’Invitée’?

9:35 - Which American writer and professor of biochemistry created the three laws of robotics and wrote famous books such as ‘Foundation’, ‘I, Robot’, and ‘The Caves of Steel’?

11:13 - Which British writer wrote the ‘Harry Potter’ series, one of the best-selling book series in history?

The questions and answers you see on the screen are actually screen recordings of Brainscape’s Classic Authors flashcards from our ‘Get Smarter’ collection (https://www.brainscape.com/learn/get-smarter), one of the most effective tools for improving your baseline knowledge in all the things you wished you’d learned in school!

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