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In honor of the 40th anniversary of The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, Peter Straus has compiled a rather in-depth quiz on the prize's history. The winner of the quiz will receive a copy of every title ever chosen to receive the prize. Cool beans!

Ah Easter…a day for chocolate indulgence if ever there was one. Book lovers, indulge your literary sweet tooth with these questions on chocolate in literature.

Can you prove your love for reading by identifying the fictional characters behind these personal ads?

How much attention have you been paying to the book world this year? Test your knowledge of the year’s book news highlights.

Are you an H.P Lovecraft fan? Do get goose bumps over James Herbert’s work? Is your bookshelf filled with gothic literature? Here’s a creepy October quiz to discover your sinister side.

Since it’s National Poetry Day in the UK, here’s a fun quiz to determine which poem you are. Just answer eight rather odd questions, and let us know if you’re a Yeats, a Plath, a Carroll or an Eliot.

There’s been a lot of talk on book versus movie around here of late, so I thought it might be fun to see who gets the high score on this one. I can tell you right now it won’t be me. Good luck!

me:
Your ideas are very strange, and people often wonder what planet you're from.
And while you may have some problems being "normal," you'll have no problems writing sci-fi.
Whether it's epic films, important novels, or vivid comics...
Your own little universe could leave an important mark on the world

but there were only 5 questions
I guess that all it took to peg me

Literature from other parts of the world sometimes contains words that stump me. Literature from my own part of the world does, too, for that matter. So I took the slanguage quiz to find out just how much foreign/domestic slang is in my vocabulary. What slanguage do you speak?

Time for a science fiction quiz, and who better to focus on than the father of the genre himself? Ten questions to test how well you know HG Wells and his work.