Decades Quiz 15 – 1870-1879
Decades Quiz 15 – 1870-1879
Each quiz in this series goes back a decade in time and is about books published in that decade and also books set in it. This quiz takes us back to a time of new empires, imperialism and the rise of militarism in Europe and Asia.
Each quiz in this series goes back a decade in time and is about books published in that decade and also books set in it. This quiz takes us back to a time of new empires, imperialism and the rise of militarism in Europe and Asia.
What is Anna Karenina’s official title?
In 1876 who got lost in the mine with Tom Sawyer?
Which Eliot novel of 1871-2 has the characters of Dorothea Brooke and Rosamond Vincy at its centre?
In which 1978 novel set in India follows Ashok during the 1870s years of the British Raj?
Which 1920 Wharton novel featuring Newland Archer questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society?
Who wrote the 1985 western novel Lonesome Dove set in the late 1870s?
In Verne’s 1873 classic Around the World in Eighty Days where do Fogg and Passepartout make landfall in the US?
In Hardy’s 1874 novel Far From the Madding Crowd what job does Bathsheba Everdene do?
Who wrote the novella Daisy Miller published in 1878?
Which 1871 nonsense poem begins `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe…’
Which novel was left unfinished at the time of Dickens’ death in 1870?
Who narrates Sewell’s famous 1877 novel Black Beauty?
Who wrote the 2000 novel The True History of the Kelly Gang set in Australia during the 1870s and ending with Kelly’s death in 1880?
What is the name of the central character of a biracial slave in Walker’s 1966 novel, Jubilee, which is set during and after the American Civil War?
Which 1937 Ingalls Wilder novel focuses on the year 1847 and includes a devastating plague of locusts and ends on a 4 day blizzard?
Which 1879 play by Ibsen opens with Nora Helmer arriving home with Christmas presents?
Who wrote the 1927 novel Death Comes for the Archbishop that is set in 1870s New Mexico?
Finish the title of Carroll’s 1871 classic: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice --- There.
Which 2014 Donoghue novel is set in San Francisco in 1876 during a smallpox epidemic?
Finish the title of Trollope’s 1873 novel that forms part of the Palliser series: The Eustace ---.