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Dreams in literature - a nightmarish quiz!

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On 18 June 1816, Mary Shelley had a dream that inspired Frankenstein. Before and since, dreaming has provided much literary inspiration – have you been awake to it?

Which literary softie said: “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time."

Winnie-the-Pooh

Ron Weasley

The BFG

Moominmama

“Last night, I dreamed I went to…”

Brideshead

Hogwarts

The Lighthouse

Manderley

In War and Peace, what is is the dream that makes Pierre assess his "evil passions"?

He gets lost in a blizzard

He’s attacked by dogs

He runs out of wine

He straps a bear to a policeman

“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life” is a quote from which influential study?

Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

The Republic by Plato

My Booky Wook by Russell Brand

Which poet “spread my dreams under your feet”?

WB Yeats

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

William Wordsworth

Sylvia Plath

In Homer’s Iliad, Zeus uses a false dream to inspire who to what?

Agamemnon to attack Troy

Achilles to kill Hector

Helen of Troy to throw a hissy fit

Aphrodite to fall in love with a donkey

Which character in a Russian novel dreams about a scruffy old peasant muttering to himself in French?

Chichikov in Gogol’s Dead Souls

Yuri Zhivago in Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago

Vronsky in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina

Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment

“I had my railway dream instead. Changing trains at Birmingham, some time during the war… A timetable I couldn’t read, a blur of figures. No hope anywhere; no more trains; desolation, darkness. You’d think such a dream would realise when it had made its point?” Which novel’s narrator has grown weary of his unconscious mind?

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

Saturday by Ian McEwan

Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes

In Neil Gaiman’s comic book series The Sandman, what is not an alternate name for the main character Dream?

Morpheus

Oneiros

The Cat of Dreams

Puck

Which American writer said: “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely"?

F Scott Fitzgerald

Emily Dickinson

William Faulkner

Henry David Thoreau

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” Which wise wizard said this?

Gandalf

Albus Dumbledore

The Wizard of Oz

Harry Dresden

Dreams inspired which of these pieces of literature?

Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

All of the above

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