Literature Quiz Templates
Book trivia, author quizzes, and reading personality tests for publishers, bookstores, and reading communities.
5 templates found
Literature & Books Quiz
Test your knowledge of classic and modern literature.
Mythology Quiz
Explore ancient myths from Greek, Norse, Egyptian and more.
Poetry Quiz
Test your knowledge of famous poems, poets, and poetic forms.
What Type of Reader Are You?
Discover your reading personality. Speed Reader, Deep Diver, Multi-Tasker, or Collector? Perfect for publishers, bookstores, and engagement.
A good book quiz does two jobs at once: it settles who actually finished the book, and it gives everyone something to argue about afterward. This category holds five templates built for readers: scored quizzes on general literature, Shakespeare, and mythology, a poetry quiz you can score or leave open, and a personality quiz that sorts people into reader types. Book clubs, English teachers, librarians, and bookstagram accounts all reach for the same starting files, then edit the questions to match their own shelves.
Three scored quizzes, a poetry round, and one that sorts readers
Three of the five templates are scored quizzes with points behind every answer. The Literature & Books Quiz, the Shakespeare Quiz, and the Mythology Quiz each run 10 questions in 4 to 6 minutes, and scoring is automatic: the taker sees their result the moment they finish, and you never mark anything by hand. The Poetry Quiz is the flexible one. It runs 10 questions in about 6 minutes and ships without a scoring mode preset, so you decide what it becomes. Attach points to the answers in the editor and it plays like the other three, or leave it unscored and use it to open a discussion about the poems themselves. Either way it edits and shares exactly like the rest.
The fifth template plays a different game. What Type of Reader Are You? is a personality quiz: 10 questions, 3 to 5 minutes, and no wrong answers. Instead of counting points it maps each choice toward a reader type, which is why it travels so well on social feeds. Nobody shares a score of 3 out of 10, but plenty of people will share a result screen that pegs them accurately. If you want participation from lurkers, start here. If you want bragging rights, start with the scored quizzes.
Book club night without a printed answer key
Running a book quiz at club used to mean someone playing quizmaster with a printed sheet. With these templates the quiz runs itself: send the link or put a QR code on the table, everyone answers on their own phone, and the score appears at the end without anyone reading answers aloud. Takers don't need an account, so the whole group can play, including the friend of a member who mostly showed up for the wine.
The conversational mode shows one question per screen with a progress bar, which suits phones far better than a long scrolling form. Back navigation means a mistapped answer isn't fatal, and retake settings are yours to decide: lock it to one attempt for a competitive round, or leave retakes open when the point is fun rather than fairness.
Rewriting the questions to match your class reading list
Teachers use these templates as structure, not syllabus. The Shakespeare Quiz doesn't know which play your class just finished, so open the editor and swap the questions for the act you actually taught. Everything is editable: the questions, the answer options, the point values, the score thresholds, and the result screens. A template becomes a chapter check in one sitting instead of a form built from scratch.
The payoff comes when the answers arrive. Per-question analytics show exactly which question the class missed, which usually points to the passage that needs another lesson. Export the responses as a CSV for your gradebook, and if your class page runs on WordPress, the Uplup plugin's shortcode drops the quiz straight into a post.
What bookstagram does with the reader type quiz
The personality quiz is the workhorse of the book accounts. A reader type result is content people generate about themselves, and every shared result carries your quiz to the next reader. Post the link in your bio or stories, print a QR code for an event table, or share it straight to social from the quiz itself.
It also does quiet list building. Add the lead capture step and takers leave a name and email before seeing their reader type, a fair trade most are happy to make. From there, webhooks and Zapier pass each new contact to whatever tool holds your newsletter list. The free plan includes every feature, lead capture and analytics included, with 50 responses per month, which is enough to test whether your audience bites before you pay anything.