Characters in Literature

Question: Of what race was Bilbo Baggins?

Answer: Bilbo Baggins was the short, stout furry-footed hero and a hobbit in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.

Question: What did the Wicked Witch of the West demand of Dorothy?

Answer: Dorothy Gale wore ruby slippers that had belonged to the witch’s sister. The witch’s quest to get those slippers makes up the novel The Wizard of Oz.

Question: What Emily Brontë novel concerns Heathcliff and Cathy Earnshaw?

Answer: Set in Yorkshire, England, Wuthering Heights is a tragic love story about an orphan named Heathcliff and his beloved Cathy Earnshaw.

Question: Why do Mowgli’s adoptive parents call him Mowgli the Frog?

Answer: Mowgli, the hero of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books, is a human. His wolf parents call him Frog because he has no fur.

Question: Who is the sole survivor of the Pequod in Moby-Dick?

Answer: Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick, is the only survivor when Captain Ahab’s ship sinks.

Question: What was the profession of John Watson, Sherlock Holmes’s friend and helper?

Answer: John H. Watson was a physician who had practiced with the British Army in Afghanistan.