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Can You Pass This Basic Lit Test?

_I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings_ is an autobiographical work by Maya Angelou.

That quote was spoken by Charlotte in Jane Austen’s _Pride and Prejudice_.

The coalition of planets that Genly Ai represents in _The Left Hand of Darkness_ was called the Ekumen.

_Mrs. Dalloway_ was written by Virginia Woolf, while the other three books were written by the Brontë sisters.

The full title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic is _Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus_.

Short story author Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013.

Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which are supernatural beings who assist Meg Murry on her adventures.

Mary Ann Evans claimed that she used a male pen name to ensure her work be taken seriously, but also to separate her writing from the work she did as an editor and critic.

The three novels of the _Hunger Games_ series were written by American novelist Suzanne Collins.

_The Joy Luck Club_ takes place in San Francisco, and the 16 vignettes that make up the novel are told over a game of mahjong.

The symbol represents the three legendary objects wielded by the Master of Death in the _Harry Potter_ books: the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility.

Listen, I know you did your best, but I'm gonna be straight with you...that wasn't great. Maybe literature wasn't really your best subject in school.

Hey! Not bad! You've definitely read at least a few books. Time to dust off that library card and get reading, though, if you want to get more than 10 right on this quiz.

Hot damn! You did REALLY well on that. Are you sure you're not a Nobel laureate? Is that you, Alice Munro?

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