Leonie Veerman 

Can you identify the book from its map? – quiz

Leonie Veerman: How well do you know your way around literature? Have a look at these maps and find out if you know which fictional worlds they chart
  
  


  1. Map number one

    1. Captain Bluebeard - Charles Perrault

    2. The Princess Bride - William Goldman

    3. The Sword in the Stone - TH White

    4. The Black Cauldron - Lloyd Alexander

  2. Map number two

    1. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

    2. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

    3. The Island of Dr Moreau – HG Wells

    4. Lord of the Flies – William Golding

  3. Map number three

    1. Eragon - Christopher Paolini

    2. The Dark Tower - Stephen King

    3. Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

    4. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

  4. Map number four

    1. Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter

    2. Charlotte’s Web - EB White

    3. Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne

    4. Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

  5. Map number five

    1. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan

    2. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

    3. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie

    4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer

  6. Map number six

    1. Around the World in 80 days – Jules Verne

    2. The Diario of Christopher Columbus – Christopher Columbus

    3. Sea of Poppies – Amitav Ghosh

    4. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne

  7. Map number seven

    1. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway

    2. Moby Dick – Herman Melville

    3. Gulliver's Travels – Jonathan Swift

    4. Jonah and the Whale – The Bible

  8. Map number eight

    1. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

    2. Flatland - Edwin Abbott

    3. House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski

    4. A Room With a View - EM Forster

  9. Map number nine

    1. The Colour of Magic - Terry Pratchett

    2. Flatland – Edwin Abbott Abbott

    3. Dune - Frank Herbert

    4. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

  10. Map number 10

    1. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights - John Steinbeck

    2. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

    3. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

    4. Game of Thrones - George RR Martin

Solutions

1:B, 2:B, 3:C, 4:C, 5:B, 6:D, 7:C, 8:B, 9:C, 10:D

Scores

  1. 0 and above.

    You're totally lost. Maybe someone will invent a literary satnav for folks like you, but until they do you are advised to stay home

  2. 1 and above.

    You're totally lost. Maybe someone will invent a literary satnav for folks like you, but until they do you are advised to stay home

  3. 2 and above.

    You're totally lost. Maybe someone will invent a literary satnav for folks like you, but until they do you are advised to stay home

  4. 3 and above.

    You've read a bit, but something tells us that you usually skip the map illustrations, don't you?

  5. 4 and above.

    You've read a bit, but something tells us that you usually skip the map illustrations, don't you?

  6. 5 and above.

    Well done. You don't get lost in books too often

  7. 6 and above.

    Well done. You don't get lost in books too often

  8. 7 and above.

    Well done. You don't get lost in books too often

  9. 8 and above.

    Congratulations! You really know your way around the literary universe. Or the library, at any rate

  10. 9 and above.

    Congratulations! You really know your way around the literary universe. Or the library, at any rate

  11. 10 and above.

    Congratulations! You really know your way around the literary universe. Or the library, at any rate

 

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