Quiz - Cities in Literature

A quick trip around a few of the great cities of the world where some great pieces of writing have been set. 18 clues, 18 cities. Easy!

Created by Translated by For Reading Addicts on August 6, 2016

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01 A Moveable Feast is a collection of Earnest Hemingway’s sketches that evokes the exuberant mood of which city after World War One?

02 The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a caustic satire on the money-feverish Eighties – set in which city?

03 Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s Shadow of the Wind paints a picture of a 'cemetery of lost books' in which city?

04 In which city did Muriel Spark’s romantic, heroic, comic, tragic and unconventional schoolmistress Miss Jean Brodie teach?

05 Colin MacInnes’ Absolute Beginners charts the rise of the teenager in the jazz clubs and coffee bars of which city?

06 Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series follows a shy Cleveland secretary to which very different city?

07 Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters focuses on a family’s unravelling and revelations of its love-torn past in which city?

08 The Public Image by Muriel Spark is about the perfecting of a movie star’s image and the revenge of her husband in which city?

09 Chloe Aridjis’ Book of Clouds sees a Mexican woman adrift in which city where she meets a meteorologist who uses clouds as his escape from reality?

10 Silence of the Lambs sees Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter work together to save Buffalo Bill’s victims in which city?

11 In which city do Roz, Charis, and Tony meet once a month to share a meal in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride?

12 Stieg Larsson’s thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, is partly set in which city?

13 Miss Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg is about a woman’s expertise in proving that an accident was, in fact, murder – set in which city?

14 Playing for Thrills is a sarcastic novel of urban alienation, a mysterious murder and low-life gangsters set in which city?

15 Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap focuses on reactions after a man controversially reprimands his friend's son by slapping him during a social gathering in which city?

16 Robert Harris’ Archangel is about an historian who tries to track down the secret notebook of a historical figure and is partly set in which city?

17 In which city do we see 10 year old Paddy Clark (Ha Ha Ha) growing up but understanding less and less?

18 In Agatha Christie’s The Man in the Brown Suit a woman investigates an accidental death at a London tube station, and then finds herself of a ship bound for which city?