July 6, 2024 Frances Boyd

Subtitle Quiz

Contests

If you wrote a book, would you give the title a subtitle? According to mental floss, June 24, 2024, publishers would sometimes give a book a subtitle if they thought the title alone would not entice a reader to read the book. The subtitle gave a little more information or made the book sound more exciting.

This quiz is to text several things on your part: How familiar you are with classics and/or how much attention you paid to a classic IF you read it. Two of the items are fairly easy, meaning that I got them right! The others will surely prove that you are a literary scholar. Good luck!

1.  The Parish Boy’s Progress

a  The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

b.  Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens   *

c.  Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

d.  Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin

2.  The Saga of an American Family

a.  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback

b.  Roots by Alex Haley  *

c.  Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

d.  The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

3.  A Romance of Exmoor

a.  Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

b.  Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

c.  Persuasion by Jane Austen

d.  Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore   *

4.  Life Among the Lowly

a.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe   *

b.  Animal Farm by George Orwell

c.  Native Son by Richard Wright

d.  The Color Purple by Alice Walker

5.  His Grooms and Companions

a.  Black Beauty by Anna Sewell   *

b.  Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

c.  Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

d.  Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett