Q 01/05

Who wrote the 1819 historical romance Ivanhoe?

A) James Hogg

B) Robert Louis Stevenson

C) Walter Scott

D) Robert Burns

Answer · why

C) Walter Scott

It became by far the best-known of his nearly thirty Waverley novels.

Q 02/05

In which year was Ivanhoe first released?

A) 1819

B) 1832

C) 1847

D) 1805

Answer · why

A) 1819

All first editions carry the date 1820, but the book went on sale in Edinburgh on 20 December 1819.

Q 03/05

Ivanhoe belongs to which series of Scott novels?

A) Marmion

B) Waverley

C) Border

D) Abbotsford

Answer · why

B) Waverley

The series of nearly thirty books is considered seminal to the genre of historical fiction.

Q 04/05

In which decade is Ivanhoe set?

A) 1060s

B) 1190s

C) 1340s

D) 1480s

Answer · why

B) 1190s

It broke from Scott's habit of setting stories in 16th- and 17th-century Scotland.

Q 05/05

What is the first name of the novel's hero, the knight of Ivanhoe?

A) Alfred

B) Wilfred

C) Edmund

D) Godfrey

Answer · why

B) Wilfred

He is one of the last Anglo-Saxon nobles in an England ruled by Normans.