Books Quiz - Genre - Novels 4 (Answers)
One thing which marks a novel out from other types of fiction is its length. When novels were first written they were shorter than the epic romances but nowadays even epics, such as War and Peace or The Lord of the Rings are considered novels. Generally a novel has 40,000 or more words – less than that and it is not a novel but a novella. Novellas have less conflicts than a novel. They also usually have no chapters as they are meant to be read at a single sitting, Perhaps we should have had a quiz or two devoted solely to novellas – there are some great ones!
This is the last in our series of four quizzes to test your knowledge of novels. In it you will be asked to recall the creators of both Reginald Perrin and John Rebus. If you find those questions too easy then we have some trickier ones for you – what was Blott's job in Blott on the Landscape and how old was Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye? Have a go and see if you can answer all ten questions correctly.
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The 3 novels, The Death of Reginald Perrin, The Return of Reginald Perrin and The Better World of Reginald Perrin were adapted into the TV series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin starring Leonard Rossiter
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The Riots came at a time when Britain was fighting France, Spain, the Dutch Republic and American rebels. Some thought that they were a deliberate attempt by the French to destabilise the country before an invasion
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He's gardener to Lady Lynchwood at Handyman Hall
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The Ballantynes first appear in A Falcon Flies in 1980
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Despite the book's controversial subject matter, it came fourth in the Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels of the 20th Century
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John Rebus has been played on TV by both John Hannah and Ken Stott
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The novel is noted for its themes of teenage angst and alienation and Caulfield has come to symbolise teenage rebellion
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Polly is the sister of Tom's dead mother. Tom and his half-brother Sid live with Polly and her daughter Mary
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The real Jamaica Inn, once a smugglers' haunt, still stands on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, just off the A30
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For reasons unknown, the book's title was changed to Revenge in the United States
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