1. Percy Shelley was born in 1792 – in which year, after a not so slow start, did he publish his first work, the Gothic novel Zastrozzi

   1. 1810

   2. 1820

   3. 1822

   4. 1824

2. Which poem did Alexander Pope publish when he was 12?

   1. Messiah

   2. The Dunciad

   3. Ode on Solitude

   4. The Rape of the Lock

3. 

   Written when he was 21, what was the name of Bret Easton Ellis's bestselling first book?

   1. Rules of Attraction

   2. American Psycho

   3. Less Than Zero

   4. Glamorama

4. What was the combined age of the Brontë sisters when they first had their work published under their male pseudonyms?

   1. 74

   2. 78

   3. 83

   4. 87

5. 

   How old was Mary Shelley when she published Frankenstein?

   1. 20

   2. 21

   3. 22

   4. 23

6. Who was the youngest ever Booker prize winner?

   1. Ben Okri

   2. Kiran Desai

   3. Aravind Adiga

   4. Eleanor Catton

7. Who was the youngest person ever to win the Nobel prize in literature?

   1. Rudyard Kipling

   2. Albert Camus

   3. Dorris Lessing

   4. Sinclair Lewis

8. Which French poet did Victor Hugo describe as "an infant Shakespeare"?

   1. Alfred de Vigny

   2. François-René de Chateaubriand

   3. Théophile Gautier

   4. Arthur Rimbaud

9. Who is the youngest fiction entrant in The Guardian's first book award 2014?

   1. Sarah Perry

   2. Fiona Macfarlane

   3. Colin Bartlett

   4. Matthew Thomas

10. 

    Amanda Hocking was 27 when she self-published her novels through Amazon and Kindle. She needed to raise $300 to fly to Chicago to watch her beloved Muppets Show. How much did she eventually raise?

    1. $300

    2. $25,000

    3. $300,000

    4. $2.5m

Solutions

1:A, 2:C, 3:C, 4:C, 5:B, 6:D, 7:A, 8:D, 9:C, 10:D

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Perhaps you'll grow more literate in time

2. 4 and above.

   Maybe you'll have better luck in 2024

3. 6 and above.

   You look 10 years younger!

4. 8 and above.

   You're truly forever young!