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Genre - Novels 1
Napoleon is leader of the pigs that take over Animal Farm.

Genre - Novels 1

A novel is a long and usually fictional narrative, more often than not in the form of a sequential story – although there are many exceptions to this rule of thumb! Novels are descended from the medieval romances (the Germans and the French call a novel a “roman” and the Italians a "romanzo") but, rather than describing fantastical events they (usually!) depict a more realistic and everyday set of characters and scenarios. As you can see, the “genre” covers a very wide spectrum!

This is the first in our series of four quizzes on novels. In all of them we have endeavoured to cater for a wide range of tastes! Here you will find questions about Richard Adams’ relatively gentle Watership Down alongside others from the not-so-gentle Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth, and marvellous fantasies such as the Discworld series alongside “Whodunits” featuring Miss Marple. Enjoy!

1.
The Frederick Forsyth novel The Day of the Jackal is an account of the attempted assassination of which world leader?
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
The book begins with a factual account of the attempted assassination of de Gaulle by Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry in 1962 - the remainder of the book is fictional
2.
Which fantasy author wrote the Discworld series of novels?
Douglas Adams
Clive Barker
Frank Herbert
Terry Pratchett
There are 41 novels in the series, released between 1983 and 2015
3.
In the George Orwell novel Animal Farm, what type of animal is Napoleon?
A dog
A goat
A horse
A pig
Napoleon is leader of the pigs that take over the farm
4.
What type of animals are the central characters in the 1972 Richard Adams novel Watership Down?
Cats
Dogs
Mice
Rabbits
The book records the rabbits adventures as they escape from the destruction of their warren and search for a new home, encountering many dangers on their way
5.
Margaret Mitchell's only novel was turned into which 1939 film?
Gone with the Wind
Goodbye, Mr Chips
Of Mice and Men
The Wizard of Oz
In 2014 Gone with the Wind was chosen as the second favourite book of American readers - only the Bible got more votes
6.
Which Scottish novelist wrote Treasure Island?
Robert Burns
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Walter Scott
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and The Master of Ballantrae are some of his other famous works
7.
Who wrote the novels White Fang and Call of the Wild?
Ernest Hemingway
Jack London
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
Both novels are set in the Klondike Gold Rush in 1890s Canada
8.
Which writer of detective fiction created the character Miss Marple?
Margery Allingham
Agatha Christie
Ruth Rendell
Dorothy L Sayers
Miss Marple first appeared in the 1930 novel The Murder at the Vicarage
9.
Zane Grey was a noted novelist in what field?
Espionage
Horror
Science fiction
Westerns
His best-known work is Riders of the Purple Sage, published in 1912
10.
Which stand-up comedian published his first novel, Stark, in 1988?
Jack Dee
Ben Elton
Eddie Izzard
Bernard Manning
Many more novels followed, including This Other Eden, Dead Famous, and Identity Crisis

 

Author:  Tony Rennick

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