FICTIONAL FAMILIES
1
To which birds did King Lear liken his daughters?
(a) Vultures
(b) Pelicans
(c) Ravens
2
What was the first name of Dombey, and his son, in Charles Dickens’s Dombey & Son? (a) Paul
(b) Peter
(c) Peregrine
3
What was the surname of The Swiss Family Robinson?
(a) Robinson
(b) No one knows
(c) Crusoe
4
The sisters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Lydia are concerned in which celebrated work of family life?
(a) The Famous Five by Enid Blyton
(b) The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
(c) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
5
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Says who?
(a) Nabokov
(b) Dostoevsky
(c) Tolstoy
6
The Jones, Iqbal and Chalfen families are involved in which acclaimed novel by a British writer?
(a) White Teeth by Zadie Smith
(b) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
(c) The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
7
Anton Chekov’s play Three Sisters concerns Olga, Maria and Irina. But what is the name of their brother?
(a) Vladimir
(b) Boris
(c) Andrei
8
What is the familyrelated title of the first novel in Anthony Powell’s 12-volume series A Dance to the Music of Time?
(a) A Question of Upbringing
(b) Heirs and Graces
(c) The Last of the Line
9
Which of Bertie Wooster’s aunts is 5ft 9in, with a beaky nose, and an eagle eye … the one who “eats broken bottles and conducts human sacrifices by the light of the full moon”?
(a) Aunt Dahlia
(b) Aunt Agatha
(c) Aunt Penelope
10
Which well-known play concerning father/mother/son issues took second prize in a drama competition in its original performance? (a) Hamlet by William Shakespeare
(b) The Family Reunion by TS Eliot
(c) Oedipus Rex by Sophocles