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06 May 2025

Posted by Harley Truslove

Pop Quiz!

Pop quiz! It’s exam season, so Ali got us to answer a series of English Literature questions. Here they are, with the answers at the end of the blog - how many can you get right?


  1. What is the name of the governess who goes to work at Thornfield Hall?

  2. Who is the wife and victim of Shakespeare’s Othello?

  3. Who is the love interest of Elizabeth Bennet?

  4. Who wrote ‘Stig of the Dump’?

  5. Where was the catcher, according to JD Salinger?

  6. What is the third book in the Harry Potter series?

  7. Who is the narrator of T.S. Eliot’s ‘Love Song’?

  8. What are the names of James’s aunts in ‘James and the Giant Peach’?

  9. Name a character in ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’.

  10. Who wrote ‘the Crucible’ and was married to a legendary movie star?


Now everyone was in exam conditions, Ali got our writers to pen a scene about being in an exam: the senses you experience, what it feels like to be there.


With the scene set, Ali told our writers to throw a spanner in the works. Have something unexpected happen, in total contrast to the quiet and controlled situation of an exam. Our writers changed their stories up with the inclusion of a sudden radioactive event, and the discovery of grisly murder notes! All of these could definitely be described as “extenuating circumstances”...









Here are our answers!


  1. Jane Eyre

  2. Desdemona

  3. Mr Darcy

  4. Clive King

  5. In the Rye

  6. Prisoner of Azkaban

  7. J. Alfred Prufrock

  8. Aunt Spiker & Aunt Sponge

  9. Arthur Dent; Ford Prefect; Trillian; Zaphod Beeblebrox; Marvin the Paranoid Android. (There are many more)

  10.  Arthur Miller


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