Can you name the cats from famous works of literature?

created by Chunklets
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  • Correctly named cats will show up below
  • Answers do not have to be guessed in order
  • Source: Wikipedia
  • Suggestions and corrections are welcome! I've (mostly) tried to stay away from the really obscure ones on this quiz.
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He has four white paws.Beverly Cleary
In Latin, he's a 'cattus petasatus'.Theodor Geisel
Friend to a cockroach named Archy.Don Marquis
An 8th-century Irish monk's cat.Unknown
A church cat and friend to mice.Graham Oakley
He's 'the nearest kin of the moon'.W.B. Yeats
The brother of Mittens and Moppet.Beatrix Potter
In the movie, John Wayne played his master.Charles Portis
Companion of Eatbugs and Pouncequick.Tad Williams
Her kittens have wings.Ursula LeGuin
He runs a scam with a group of sentient rats.Terry Pratchett
A group of very vengeful cats.H.P. Lovecraft
'Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes/She saw: and purred applause.Thomas Gray
He's off to see a wizard.Frank Baum
His name means 'The Tiger King'.Rudyard Kipling
A Scottish cat who has a near-death experience.Paul Gallico
He buys a farm, becomes a doctor, and goes to the moonKathleen Hale
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He tricks an ogre into turning into a mouse.Charles Perreault
A long-serving Iowan library cat.Vicki Myron
A lexicographer's cat; he has a statue in Gough Square, LondonPercival Stockdale et al.
She sailed 'in a beautiful pea green boat'.Edward Lear
He's half-cat, half-kneazle!J.K. Rowling
A biblically-named cat.T.S. Eliot
He grins and vanishes.Lewis Carroll
A passenger on the Ark.Timothy Findley
A tiger in a boat.Yann Martel
A Scottish witch's cat.William Shakespeare
A black panther.Rudyard Kipling
Crime-solving companions of a reporter (name one).Lilian Jackson Braun
He 'does be yawning and smirking cat's hours'.James Joyce
He is accidentally walled up with a corpse.Edgar Allen Poe
The villainous leader of the Blue Hordes.Brian Jacques
He's a bit too bouncy for some.A.A. Milne
A Lancrean witch's cat.Terry Pratchett
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Literary Cats Quiz

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  • Created Jul 3, 2010 in Literature
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