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The homicide rate may rise and fall, but in the world of Penguin Classics and Modern Classics, literary murder and mayhem remain rampant - and, for the most part, fictional.

1) When he discovers that his girlfriend Nancy has been informing on him, this Dickensian criminal slits her throat.
Uriah Heep

Leicester Deadlock

Bill Sykes

Jeremiah Flintwich

2) True or False: Nicollo Machiavelli condemns Cesare Borgia's brutal murder of an especially cruel minister, killed to appease the masses.
True

False

3) The dissipated Dorian Gray finally stabs the artist who has painted his portrait. What is the artist's name?
Gerald Arbuthnot

Robert Chiltern

Basil Hallward

Henry Wotton

4) The anarchist Verlock meets death at the hands of his wife in which twentieth-century novel?
Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent

Heinrich Boll's Billiards at Half-past Nine

Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Lavinsky

R. K. Narayan's The Guide

5) Thomas Hardy's Tess is hanged for stabbing the man who stole her virginity. Who is he?
Angel Clare

Alec D'Urbeville

Michael Henchard

Donald Farfrae

6) Frankenstein's monster murders all of his creator's loved ones. In what venue do the creator and his wretched creation last meet?
A darkened alley

The Alps

A cave

The Arctic

7) Dostoyevsky's masterpiece The Brothers Karamazov turns on the murder of Fyodor Karamazov. In the end, who is the guilty party?
Smerdyakov

Svidrigailov

Roskolnikov

Dimitri Karamazov

8) In the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno, Dante and Virgil meet a soul gnawing at the head of the man who starved him to death. Name this damnable pair.
Guido da Montefeltro and Pope Boniface

Count Ugolino and Archbishop Ruggieri

Puccio dei Galigai and Agnello dei Brunelleschi

Pier delle Vigne and Frederick II.

9) There is a murder in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn in which a town drunk is shot down by a cruel 'upstanding' citizen. Name the victim and the killer.
Injun Joe and Buck Grangerford

Boggs and Colonel Sherburn

Pap and the Duke

Mr Bixby and Aleck Scott

10) In Aeschylus' tragedy, who murders Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus?
Electra

Orestes

Oedipus

Antigone
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