Interactive Quizzes
with Hot Potatoes

Try these literary quizzes to test your knowledge of the English language authors and their works. 
Maybe you will surprise yourself...

Multiple Choice Quizzes - Famous First Lines:

Quiz 1 - Easy Ones

Quiz 2 - English Lit.

Quiz 3 - Books to Movies

Matching Quizzes - Authors:

Quiz 1 - Authors and their Books (Easy)

Quiz 2 - Authors and their Books (A Little Harder)

Quiz 3 - Authors and their Books (Advanced)

A JBC Quiz with a Timed Reading:

Shakespeare's Birth and Early Life

An Example Using Audio Files:

Music Appreciation


Matching with Pictures:

Here's a scientific one using terms and matching pictures:

Hominid Evolution

Here's one using the pictures of famous authors

Author Recognition


Crossword Puzzles

A Shakespeare Crossword Puzzle

Instructions for printing a crossword puzzle


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