Reimagined Literature Quiz

Author	Title	Inspired By
Jane Smiley		King Lear
John Gardner		Beowulf
James Joyce		The Odyssey
Zadie Smith		Howards End
Geraldine Brooks		Little Women
David Wroblewski		Hamlet
Michael Cunningham		Mrs. Dalloway
Alice Randall		Gone With The Wind
Margaret Atwood		The Odyssey

Author	Title	Inspired By
Eugene O'Neill		The Oresteia
Jean Rhys		Jane Eyre
C.S. Lewis		Cupid and Psyche
Neil Gaiman		The Jungle Book
John Updike		Hamlet
Helen Fielding		Pride and Prejudice
J.M. Coetzee		Robinson Crusoe
Tom Stoppard		Hamlet
Gregory Maguire		The Wizard of Oz
Bharati Mukherjee (The Scarlet Letter)	The Wizard of Oz

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Reimagined Literature Quiz

by RebeccaAMax

Created Sep 27, 2009 in Literature
Featured Apr 30, 2010
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	jtrichey:	Apr 30th, 2010 at 22:58 GMT	13 points
	Wow, I had no idea what to do with this one.

	SammyDavisEyes:	Apr 30th, 2010 at 23:17 GMT	2 points
	Really clever! Thanks for the fun quiz!

	IronyTowers:	May 1st, 2010 at 00:35 GMT	8 points
	Interesting concept. You could probably afford to be kind and accept the Pride and Prejudice answer without the 's' after the apostrophe.

	RebeccaAMax:	May 1st, 2010 at 01:12 GMT	1 point
	I can't edit it now, but hopefully the Sporcle editors will get on that.

	Hobbaloo:	May 1st, 2010 at 03:30 GMT	-4 points
	Also, it wouldn't accept 'Bridget Jones' diary' which is grammatically correct - there's only one s.

	RebeccaAMax:	May 1st, 2010 at 04:19 GMT	3 points
	Sorry, the singular always takes 's regardless of final letter (see: Fowler's Modern English Usage, every other modern style guide). In any case, if you'll look up the book itself, it's spelt with apostrophe s, so that would be the correct answer whatever the grammaticality.

	thehotstepper:	May 1st, 2010 at 12:53 GMT	12 points
	I guess "The Jungle Book 2: Baloo's Boogaloo" wasn't what you'd call "an educated guess"

	Oddish:	May 1st, 2010 at 16:21 GMT	4 points
	I was thrown off by "Reimagined Literature" being in capital letters in the quiz title, I thought that meant it was a franchise of some sort that redid books. Of course, I should have looked closer but an explanation couldn't hurt for this quiz.

	elasticpretzel:	May 1st, 2010 at 18:07 GMT	7 points
	cool quiz! i only got four and still scored in the 87th percentile! i think pride and prejudice and zombies and sense and sensibility and sea monsters should be on here haha!

	RebeccaAMax:	May 1st, 2010 at 18:28 GMT	3 points
	@Oddish: good idea, hopefully editors will do that, too

	jefrunner:	May 2nd, 2010 at 16:43 GMT	5 points
	I hung my head in shame and gave up after five failed attempts to spell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

	RSS5thgrade:	May 3rd, 2010 at 19:46 GMT	1 point
	The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a fantastic book, by the way.

	Bakey:	May 5th, 2010 at 17:28 GMT	1 point
	got ulysses, lol, not many people getting more than 3

	ktappe:	May 23rd, 2010 at 21:02 GMT	4 points
	Definitely need more of a description of what to do on this one. It is NOT self-explanatory. Perhaps at least one sample so people get the idea?

	bookbomb:	Jul 27th, 2010 at 22:14 GMT	3 points
	Wow! Hamlet keeps getting redone!I just finished writing a research paper on Hamlet and even before Hamlet there was, what the literary historians called, the Ur-Hamlet. What is up with that?

	steel03:	Aug 10th, 2010 at 04:19 GMT	0 points
	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies should be a bonus answer. :P

	anarresti:	Oct 20th, 2010 at 15:02 GMT	1 point
	Pleasingly difficult and thought-provoking quiz. Many thanks!

	iak:	Nov 11th, 2010 at 01:26 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz, thanks! Only got a little over half, but it made me want to finally read a couple that have been patiently waiting their turn on my bookshelf...How good a lit quiz is that?

	giveupyet:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 21:48 GMT	1 point
	Cool quiz, but could use a bit more instruction.

	mssrmoony:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 14:18 GMT	1 point
	Jane by April Lindner (Jane Eyre), The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (Alice and Wonderland), The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (The Gospels)

	tudorrose16:	Aug 17th, 2011 at 17:04 GMT	1 point
	Awesome quiz! I love how all these authors have gotten away with publishing what is basically fanfiction :) I had a heck of a time trying to remember/spell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern though...

	JamesSnell:	Sep 8th, 2011 at 19:18 GMT	1 point
	good quiz, very nice concept.