Do you remember the names of magical creatures at Hogwarts? What fictional feline carries a gun and deals with the devil? Take this Animals in Fiction quiz from eNotes to test your knowledge about some literary creatures!
Which spoiled pup from a Dickens novel dies at the exact moment of his owner’s death?
Many people are familiar with the Cheshire Cat from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. However, there is another, far less mischievous cat in the book as well. What is her name?
J. K. Rowling’s beloved series features a creature named Fawkes. What kind of creature is he?
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov features an enormous cat named _____ who drinks, wields a pistol, and is friends with Satan.
“Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.” What literary animal speaks these sage words?
The Deptford Mice trilogy by Robin Jarvis follows a group of mice who fearfully worship a dark presence in the sewers who turns out to be a cat. What is the name of this dark presence?
The Land of Oz books feature Billina, a lively animal who was originally named Bill and is tossed overboard with Dorothy in Ozma of Oz. What kind of animal is she?
Who is the leader of the giant eagles from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy?
According to Andre Norton, what are Ka'ats?
In support of his daughter’s fight against vivisection, Mark Twain wrote a story from the perspective of _____, a dog who saves a scientist’s child only to have him turn around and kill her puppy by way of painful experimentation.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wordsworth
The Lady of Shalott
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Lycidas
by John Milton
The Man with the Hoe
by Edwin Markham
Mending Wall
by Robert Frost
Ode to a Nightingale
by John Keats
Ode to the West Wind
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Out, Out—
Ozymandias
Where the Mind Is Without Fear (Gitanjali 35)
by Rabindranath Tagore
River of the Gods
by Candice Millard
Life
by Charlotte Brontë
The Nightingale and the Rose
by Oscar Wilde
The Ecchoing Green
by William Blake
They Both Die at the End
by Adam Silvera
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
Atlas of the Heart
by Brené Brown
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
All That She Carried
by Tiya Miles