Question 1
Which 1877 Tolstoy novel opens with the remark that happy families are all alike but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, and follows a married St Petersburg noblewoman whose affair with the cavalry officer Count Vronsky ends in social ruin and suicide beneath a train?
Question 2
Which 1868 American novel follows the four March sisters, motherly Meg, tomboyish and writerly Jo, shy musical Beth and vain artistic Amy, growing up in genteel poverty in Massachusetts while their father serves as a chaplain in the Civil War?
Question 3
Which 1876 Mark Twain novel follows a mischievous boy in a sleepy Mississippi River town who tricks other children into whitewashing a fence for him, courts Becky Thatcher, and witnesses a graveyard murder by Injun Joe?
Question 4
Which 1811 novel, Jane Austen's first published, contrasts two sisters left poor by their father's death, the reserved and prudent Elinor Dashwood and her openly romantic sister Marianne, as each suffers disappointment in love?
Question 5
Which Spanish novel, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615 and often called the first modern novel, concerns an elderly gentleman who has read so many tales of chivalry that he loses his wits, renames himself a knight-errant, and rides out with a farmer as his squire to right imaginary wrongs?
Question 6
Which 1957 novel, banned in its own country and first published in Italy, follows a physician and poet through the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the civil war that follows, torn between his wife Tonya and his great love Lara amid cold, hunger and upheaval?
Question 7
Which 1891 novel, subtitled A Pure Woman and set in the fictional county of Wessex, follows a poor country girl sent to claim kinship with a rich family, where the son, Alec, rapes her; she later marries the idealistic Angel Clare, who abandons her the moment she confesses her past?
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