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The literary world is full of amazing characters that make us laugh, cry, and root for them. From Harry Potter to Aslan, Oliver Twist to Elizabeth Bennett, the people that inhabit books have become giants in our cultural landscape. Of course it would be a little bit too easy if we were only going toShow More
The literary world is full of amazing characters that make us laugh, cry, and root for them. From Harry Potter to Aslan, Oliver Twist to Elizabeth Bennett, the people that inhabit books have become giants in our cultural landscape. Of course it would be a little bit too easy if we were only going to ask you about these characters, because they’re pretty well known by most people out there.
Today we’re going to push your literary know-how to another level. We’re going to ask you to remember the character, place that character in a book, and then tell us who wrote the book. Only the highest of literary achievers will be able to pull off this quiz with ease. So go ahead; prove that you’ve got a way with words and know your way around literature better than most. Jump in and see if you know where these amazing characters come from.

Let's start with a softball. Who created Harry Potter?
- J.K. Rowling
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Suzanne Collins
- C.S. Lewis

We'll hang out in the young adult genre for one more question. Who wrote America's favorite sexy vampire, Edward Cullen?
- Stephenie Marks
- Stephenie Miller
- Stephenie Meyer
- Stephenie Miner

Time to up the difficulty. You may know James Bond as the movie hero, but he was originally a character in a book. Who wrote that book?
- Raymond Chandler
- Dashiell Hammett
- John Gardner
- Ian Fleming

Time to hop across the pond for a look at one of the greatest detectives of all time. Who was the originator of Sherlock Holmes?
- Jules Verne
- H.G. Wells
- G.K. Chesterton
- Arthur Conan Doyle

This name may be one of the most iconic of all time: Inigo Montoya. But who wrote the following classic lines? "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
- William Goldman
- Cary Elwes
- A.A. Milne
- James Grady

It may be hard to imagine that Count Dracula was ever dreamed up by someone, but he was. Who?
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Bram Stoker
- Mary Shelley

You may think of "Gone With the Wind" as a cinematic masterpiece, but before it hit the screen it was a knockout book. Who wrote it?
- Margaret Smith
- Margaret Atwood
- Margaret Mead
- Margaret Mitchell

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins." Lolita is such a famous character that "Lolita" has its own entry in the dictionary. Who wrote the novel?
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Franz Kafka
- William Faulkner

The character Ebenezer Scrooge inspired the term "scrooge," which we use to describe miserly people. Who created Scrooge?
- Charles Dickens
- Mark Twain
- Alexandre Dumas
- William Thackeray

You probably read the name Hester Prynne in high school at some point. Do you remember the author of the book?
- John Steinbeck
- Sinclair Lewis
- Stephen Crane
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

He doesn't want you to forget his name: Jean ValJean is a character of both page and stage. Who was the author that originally brought him to life?
- Leo Tolstoy
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Victor Hugo
- Honoré de Balzac

Last, but certainly not least, who wrote the great lion Aslan into existence?
- Madeleine L’Engle
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- C.S. Lewis
- Roald Dahl

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