Famous Book Characters Quiz

Famous Book Characters Quiz — Practice Questions

1. Which fictional detective lives at 221B Baker Street and is famous for his deductive reasoning?
2. Who narrates The Great Gatsby and is Jay Gatsby's neighbour?
3. Jay Gatsby throws his legendary parties hoping to reconnect with which woman?
4. Holden Caulfield, who despises 'phonies' and narrates his drift through New York, is the protagonist of:
5. Who is the narrator of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, beginning with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
6. Winston Smith is the protagonist of which George Orwell dystopian novel?
7. Which character is the narrator and protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird?
8. In Pride and Prejudice, which Bennet daughter is the witty, perceptive protagonist who matches wits with Mr Darcy?
9. Don Quixote, who famously mistakes windmills for giants and attacks them, is the creation of which author?
10. The protagonist of The Handmaid's Tale — who wears a red dress and white bonnet in a totalitarian future — is:
11. In Les Misérables, Inspector Javert relentlessly pursues which ex-convict across decades?
12. Atticus Finch, the moral backbone of To Kill a Mockingbird, is a:
13. Robinson Crusoe is stranded on a desert island and befriends a man he names Friday. Who wrote this novel?
14. Which Russian novelist created Raskolnikov, the student who commits murder and wrestles with guilt, in Crime and Punishment?
15. Captain Ahab, who pursues the white whale Moby Dick to everyone's destruction, is motivated by:
16. In Great Expectations, who does Pip fall in love with — the cold, beautiful ward of Miss Havisham trained to break men's hearts?
17. The brooding Heathcliff and his doomed love Catherine Earnshaw are at the heart of which classic novel?
18. Anna Karenina — the tragic aristocrat who breaks social conventions for love — was created by which author?
19. Which Austen novel's protagonist is described in its opening sentence as 'handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition'?
20. Long John Silver, the cunning, charismatic pirate with one leg, appears in which adventure novel?