Literary Quiz 13 - Books and Characters

Literary Quiz 13 - Books and Characters

This quiz is about the characters from famous children's stories and teen novels. If you are a good reader, you will be able to answer all of them easily.

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1. Our hero was created as a wooden puppet, carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a village near Florence, who dreamed of becoming a real boy. Can you name him?

Pinocchio
Tom Thumb
Noddy
Peter Pan

2. He is a naughty boy at an American middle school, who keeps a diary about his best friend Rowley and the problems in his school. Who is he?

Charlie Bucket
Rodrick Heffley
Fregley
Greg Heffley

3. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl and her pet dog Toto who were swept away from their home by a cyclone in to the magical land of Oz. Do you know her name?

Alice
Dorothy
Matilda
Lisa

4. Do you know the name of the royal Bengal tiger that is stranded on a lifeboat with Piscine Molitor Patel, known as "Pi", the narrator and protagonist of a famous novel?

Sher Khan
Chester Cheetah
Richard Parker
Sabor Parker

5. She comes from District 12, a coal mining district in the dystopian fictional autocratic national of Panem and is chosen to compete in a televised fight to the death. Who is she?

Katniss Everdeen
Vega Jane
Rosemary Hathaway
Ginny Weasley

6. The title of this novel is the name of the hero, who finds a mysterious stone from which a dragon, named Saphira, hatches. Do you know which book or character is referred here?

Prince Caspian
Percy Jackson
Harry Potter
Eragon

7. She is the title character and protagonist of a bestselling children's novel. She has a passion for reading books and has the mental ability of telekinesis, the ability to move and levitate inanimate objects by mere thought, without having to physically touch them.

Matilda
Ginny Weasley
Susan
Charlotte

8. In which one of the following novels will you meet Edward Cullen, a vampire with the body of a seventeen-year old?

Vampire Academy
Vampire Hunter
Twilight
I am Legend

9. A demigod, the son of a mortal and the Greek god Poseidon and has ADHD and dyslexia, our hero is dangerously loyal to his friends and family. He can read ancient Greek and can cotrol water, make hurricanes, breath underwater and talk to horse-like animals and fish.

Percy Jackson
Jaxter Grimjinx
Artemis Fowl
Tobias Eaton

10. She is an adopted girl on the verge of adolescence, with a blonde hair. She is fascinated by the power of words and is the "Book Thief" referred to in the title of the book.

Vega Jane
Rosemary Hathaway
Liesel Meminger
Sephy Hadley

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