Question 1
Who wrote the line "To be, or not to be: that is the question"?
- William Shakespeare
- John Webster
- Christopher Marlowe
- Ben Jonson
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William Shakespeare
Literature · Poetry & Theatre
Literary Quotes trivia quiz
How well do you really know Literary Quotes? Find out in a live duel. QuizDown has over 120 Literary Quotes questions, from easy to expert, and you’re matched with a real player who gets the same seven.
What the Literary Quotes questions cover
- Shakespeare
- Romantic Poetry
- American Poetry
- Modern Poetry
- Modernism
- Victorian Poetry
- Renaissance Drama
- Metaphysical Poetry
- Welsh Poetry
- Harlem Renaissance
- Irish Poetry
- Milton
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Question 2
Who wrote the opening line "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"?
- William Wordsworth
- Robert Frost
- Robert Burns
- Walt Whitman
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Robert Frost
Question 3
Who wrote the opening words "Once upon a midnight dreary"?
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Bram Stoker
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Oscar Wilde
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Edgar Allan Poe
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How a Literary Quotes match works
- Seven rounds. The same seven Literary Quotes questions for you and your opponent.
- Ten seconds each. A right answer in two seconds scores 20; at the buzzer, 11.
- The last round counts double. It’s never over until it’s over.
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