Are You As Book-Smart As A GCSE Student?

With thousands of expectant students set to receive their English GCSE results today, see how well you fare in our GCSE based book quiz.

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On Aug 20, 2015
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In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, who performs the marriage for the "pair of star-cross'd lovers"?

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In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, how does Mr. Darcy (famously played by Colin Firth above) offend Elizabeth at the first ball?

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In The Tempest, another of Shakespeare's greats, what was the name of Caliban's mother?

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In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, what is the creature's reward for saving a girl from drowning?

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Where does Pip first encounter Magwitch in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel, Great Expectations?

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In J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls, where does the Birling family live?

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Who wrote the 1983 West End musical, Blood Brothers?

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As well as referring to the pig’s head, the ‘Lord of the Flies’ is also symbolic of what in William Golding's 1954 novel?

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What title does Napoleon eventually assume for himself in George Orwell's Animal Farm?

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In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, what ultimately happens to John Proctor?

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In Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go, what is the name of the fictional English boarding school where Kathy, Ruth and Tommy all attend?

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What is Scout’s real name in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird?

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In the American classic, Of Mice and Men, what excites Lennie most about his dream life with George?

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In Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, what did Richard Enfield see Edward Hyde do late one night?

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Lastly, in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, who sets the fire in Mr. Rochester’s bedroom?

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