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Literary Inspirations for Musical Compositions

This quiz tests your knowledge of literary works that have inspired musical compositions.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which Shakespearean play inspired Verdi's opera Otello?

  1. Romeo and Juliet
  2. Othello
  3. Hamlet
  4. Macbeth
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by Victor Hugo inspired Verdi's opera Rigoletto?

  1. Les Misérables
  2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  3. The Three Musketeers
  4. The Count of Monte Cristo
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe inspired Schubert's song cycle Die schöne Müllerin?

  1. Faust
  2. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
  3. The Sorrows of Young Werther
  4. Hermann and Dorothea
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by Charles Dickens inspired Britten's opera Peter Grimes?

  1. Oliver Twist
  2. David Copperfield
  3. Great Expectations
  4. A Tale of Two Cities
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which play by Henrik Ibsen inspired Grieg's incidental music Peer Gynt?

  1. A Doll's House
  2. Hedda Gabler
  3. Brand
  4. Peer Gynt
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which poem by Edgar Allan Poe inspired Rachmaninoff's symphonic poem The Bells?

  1. The Raven
  2. Annabel Lee
  3. The Tell-Tale Heart
  4. The Fall of the House of Usher
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by Herman Melville inspired Britten's opera Billy Budd?

  1. Moby-Dick
  2. Billy Budd, Sailor
  3. Typee
  4. Omoo
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which play by William Shakespeare inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet Romeo and Juliet?

  1. Romeo and Juliet
  2. Hamlet
  3. Macbeth
  4. Othello
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by Leo Tolstoy inspired Prokofiev's opera War and Peace?

  1. War and Peace
  2. Anna Karenina
  3. The Kreutzer Sonata
  4. The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge inspired Britten's song cycle The Ancient Mariner?

  1. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  2. Kubla Khan
  3. Christabel
  4. The Nightingale
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by Thomas Mann inspired Schoenberg's opera Moses und Aron?

  1. The Magic Mountain
  2. Death in Venice
  3. Doctor Faustus
  4. Joseph and His Brothers
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which play by Bertolt Brecht inspired Weill's opera The Threepenny Opera?

  1. The Threepenny Opera
  2. Mother Courage and Her Children
  3. The Good Person of Szechwan
  4. Life of Galileo
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by James Joyce inspired Boulez's opera Ulysses?

  1. Ulysses
  2. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  3. Finnegans Wake
  4. Dubliners
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which play by Oscar Wilde inspired Strauss's opera Salome?

  1. Salome
  2. The Importance of Being Earnest
  3. Lady Windermere's Fan
  4. A Woman of No Importance
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky inspired Prokofiev's opera The Gambler?

  1. The Gambler
  2. Crime and Punishment
  3. The Idiot
  4. The Brothers Karamazov
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