How Well Do You Know These Memorable Couples of Literature?
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of 20th-century novels featuring memorable romantic couples — some of whom faced more obstacles in love than others. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books if you’d like to do some further reading.
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What is the title of the Dashiell Hammett novel that introduced the bantering Nick and Nora Charles into the world of crime fiction?
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In her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie, a woman trying to define herself on her own terms. Along the way, she has two bad marriages before finding happiness with her third husband. What was his nickname?
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In his 1985 novel, Gabriel García Márquez writes of Florentino and Fermina, a couple who fall in love at a young age but have a long interruption in their courtship. What is the title of the book?
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“The Price of Salt,” a 1952 novel about a romance between Carol, a homemaker, and Therese, a sales clerk, was notable at the time for portraying an optimistic same-sex relationship in conservative midcentury America. The book’s original author was listed as Claire Morgan, but who was actually using that pseudonym?
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Buttercup is the heroine of “The Princess Bride,” William Goldman’s 1973 adventure novel, but what is the name of Buttercup’s true love?
