Are You As Well Read As Rory Gilmore?

By: Bri O.
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
Are You As Well Read As Rory Gilmore?
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About This Quiz

From Feminist Philosophy to "The Art of War" to the Harry Potter series, Rory Gilmore has read some of humankind's greatest texts. Can your reading list compete? Take this quiz to find out!
In your free time, you are most likely to do which of the following:
Watch TV or Netflix
Read a good book
Go on an outdoor adventure
Go shopping

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Have you ever read a book by George Orwell?
Yes, more than one!
Maybe in high school?
You've read one book by him.
You're not sure

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Have you read the Harry Potter series?
No, you're not interested or haven't yet.
Yes, all of them!
Yes...multiple times
You've read a few of them.

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How would your friends describe you?
Outgoing
Nerdy
Adventurous
Introverted

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After a long day, would you rather:
Read
Go out with friends
Watch netflix
Go to sleep

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How do you feel about "Alice in Wonderland?"
The book is better
The movie is awsome
Which version?
You like the book and the movie

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Have you read anything by Mark Twain?
Yes, you've read a number of his works
Yes, you've read some of his well-known works
Probably, but you're not sure
Nope, at least you don't think so

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What is "The Art of War?"
A military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu
A book about military strategy
Warfare isn't art
You don't know

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What is the author J.D. Salinger best known for?
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"
"The Catcher in the Rye"
Who is J.D. Salinger?
You've never read anything by him

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What's a catch-22?
It's a book
An impossible situation with no escape because of mutually conflicting conditions
The jersey number of a famous catcher
It's from "The Catchers in the Rye"

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What's "The Crucible" about?
You aren't sure
The adversities of a small, religious town
The Salem Witch Trials
That was a good movie!

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What causes Don Quixote to freak out?
Drugs
Ferocious Giants
Windmills
Prostitutes

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Who wrote of hearing a heart beat from beneath the floor boards?
Robert Frost
Anne Sexton
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allen Poe

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Which famous Greek philosopher was also the student of another famous Greek philosopher?
Hercules
Aristotle
Socrates
Perseus

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What mental illness is the main character from "Girl, Interrupted" diagnosed with?
She was misdiagnosed
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
An Eating Disorder

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Who wrote "Gender Trouble?"
Judith Butler
Some feminist
An amazing person
Carol Oates

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What color is the light at the end of the dock in "The Great Gatsby?"
You don't remember
The normal color of light bulbs
Green
Red

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"Out, damned spot!" is from the Shakespeare play:
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet

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What country does "The House of the Spirits" take place in?
Mexico
Venezuela
Nicaragua
You forgot

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Who wrote "Mrs. Dalloway?"
Anne Sexton
Virginia Woolf
Sylvia Plath
Clarissa Dalloway

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Do you think reading comprehension skills are important?
No, you don't think they are at all
Yes, you think they're very important.
You are unsure.
Yes, you think they're somewhat important

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Who dies in "My Sister's Keeper?"
The younger sister without cancer, Anna
Kate, the older sister dying from Leukemia
The movie's ending is different from the book's
You're not sure

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What is "Night" by Elie Wiesel about?
The Holocaust and WWII
The author's experiences in Nazi concentration camps at the height of the Holocaust
You don't know
The author's experiences as an American soldier in WWII

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What happens to Lenny in "Of Mice and Men?"
He kills George
He kills himself
George kills him
George and Lenny escape

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"Stay Golden, Ponyboy" is a line from what book?
The Road to Memphis
The Inbetweeners
The Breakfast Club
The Outsiders

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"A Room of One's Own" is based on:
A series of lectures
A short story
A collection of essays
A collection of journal entries

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What letter is "The Scarlet Letter?"
The letter "S"
The letter "A"
It's red
The one from "Easy A"?

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What's "The Second Sex" about?
It's a work of feminist philosophy
It's about nontraditional ways of having sex
It's about the history of sex
It's erotica

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Have you read anything by Jane Austin?
Yes, you've read everything she's ever wrote
You've read a few of her novels
No, you don't like her work
You've read one or two things by Jane Austin

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Who wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire?"
You don't recall
Mark Twain
Tennessee Williams
Someone named Stella

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You Got: