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Author - Robert Louis Stevenson 0001

Robert Louis Stevenson is reported to be amongst the 30 most translated authors in the world and he was greatly admired by many of his contemporaries. How much do you recollect about Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and his collection of children's poems?

  1. Stevenson was born in 1850 in which Scottish city?

  2. What was the original title of the novel Treasure Island?

  3. In the novel Kidnapped, who gets kidnapped?

  4. In which Stevenson story is MP Sir Danvers Carew murdered?

  5. In Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, what is the name of his stubborn donkey?

  6. What is the name of the inn that features in the first chapter of Treasure Island?

  7. Across the Plains is Stevenson's travel memoir about a train journey across which country?

  8. What is the title of Stevenson's 1885 collection of children's poems?

  9. What is the title of Stevenson's 1893 novel, the sequel to Kidnapped?

  10. Stevenson died in 1894 on the island of Upolu, part of which Pacific island group?

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