| 1) How many real-life dogs are described in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles? |
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None
One
Two
Three
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| 2) Which of Shakespeare's characters speaks the following lines? Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men/As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs/Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves are clept/All by the name of dogs. |
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Troilus
Macbeth
King Lear
Henry V
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| 3) What is the name of Odysseus' faithful dog who immediately recognises his disguised master when Odysseus returns home after many years of wandering? |
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Kyon
Fides
Cerberus
Argus
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| 4) In which Dickens novel is it claimed that a dog refused to accompany its owner on a shooting expedition because it spotted a sign that read 'Gamekeeper has orders to shoot all dogs found in this enclosure'? |
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Nicholas Nickleby
The Pickwick Papers
Martin Chuzzlewit
Little Dorrit
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| 5) When Isabella runs away from Wuthering Heights who does she see hanging a litter of puppies from the back of a chair? |
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Heathcliff
Joseph
Hareton
Hindley
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| 6) In Aesop's fable, what happened to the gardener who tried to haul his dog out of a well? |
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The grateful dog led him to some treasure
Both the gardener and the dog drowned
The dog bit the gardener
The gardener was unable to reach the dog
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| 7) In Gogol's Diary of a Madman, what does the narrator imagine that the dogs Medji and Fidhle are up to? |
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Plotting to kill him
Writing letters to each other
Trying to run away
Stealing food from the larder
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| 8) In which work do the following lines appear? The dog, to gain some private ends,/Went mad and bit the man.../The man recovered of the bite,/The dog it was that dy'd. |
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Alexander Pope’s An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield
Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub
Thomas Hood’s The Dream of Eugene Aram
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| 9) What did Dr. Johnson compare with a dog walking on its hind legs? |
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A woman preaching
A Scotsman appearing in polite society
A Whig politician
A patron of the arts
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| 10) How does the Prioress in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales look after her dogs? |
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She dresses them in fine linen
She feeds them on roast meat or milk or white bread
She carries them with her wherever she goes
She lets them sleep in her bed
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