Super Quiz: Literary Characters

1. This sea captain seeks revenge on a white whale.

2. He is an Alabama lawyer and father of Jem and Scout.

3. Her little daughter Bonnie dies in a horseback riding accident.

4. At age 11 she is taken from an orphanage to Prince Edward Island.

5. He flung Moriarty to his death at the Reichenbach Falls.

6. A seamstress in Colonial America who is imprisoned for the crime of adultery.

7. He recounts a week in New York City during Christmas break following his expulsion from school.

8. He is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl named Dolores Haze.

9. When Catherine says marrying him "would degrade her," he departs to make his fortune.

Answers:

1. Captain Ahab, "Moby-Dick"

2. Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird"

3. Scarlett O'Hara, "Gone With the Wind"

4. Anne Shirley, "Anne of Green Gables"

5. Sherlock Holmes, "The Final Problem"

6. Hester Prynne, "The Scarlet Letter"

7. Holden Caulfield, "The Catcher in the Rye"

8. Humbert Humbert, "Lolita"

9. Heathcliff, "Wuthering Heights"