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- 1Books › ShakespeareEasyWhy did Shakespeare's Globe stage its plays in the afternoon?Right1.8s+100
- 2Books › PoetryExpert"Daredevils of Sassoun" is the national epic of which country?Wrong2.9s0
- 3Books › World LiteratureVery hardGoethe's 1774 novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther" set a craze for which outfit?Wrong5.6s0
- 4Books › PoetryHardWhich Russian poetic movement, reacting against Symbolism, included Akhmatova and Mandelstam?Wrong4.7s0
- 5Books › ClassicsHardWhich 1764 Horace Walpole novel is often called the first Gothic novel?Wrong1.2s0
- 6Books › ClassicsHardWhich Jane Austen novel gently parodies Gothic fiction?Right2.8s+99
- 7Books › PoetryMediumLord Byron died in 1824 while supporting which country's war of independence?Right1.3s+100
- 8Books › World LiteratureMediumAccording to the principle known as "Chekhov's gun", a loaded gun shown on stage must do what?Right2.7s+99
- 9Books › ClassicsMedium"Moby-Dick" drew on the real 1820 sinking of the whaleship Essex by what?Right1.6s+100
- 10Books › ClassicsEasyWhat is the name of the ship in "Treasure Island"?Wrong2.9s0