1. In Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Red-Headed League, an unsuspecting pawnbroker is lured into a criminal plot when he is asked to copy out chunks of which book?

   1. The Encyclopedia Britannica

   2. The King James Bible

   3. Middlemarch

   4. One Thousand and One Nights

2. When mischievous characters in Twelfth Night decide to trick the humourless Malvolio into believing Olivia loves him, they forge a letter from her. What does “she” ask him to wear?

   1. Yellow stockings

   2. A peacock feather in his hair

   3. A purple doublet

   4. Spotted slippers

3. Puck of Pook’s Hill is a children’s book featuring Shakespeare’s most famous trickster. Who was the writer?

   1. E Nesbit

   2. Frances Hodgson Burnett

   3. Rudyard Kipling

   4. Richmal Crompton

4. Which American children’s book hero famously tricks his friends in painting an enormous white fence for him?

   1. Huckleberry Finn

   2. Tom Sawyer

   3. Br’er Rabbit

   4. Jem Finch

5. Who wrote a long narrative poem based on the Pied Piper of Hamelin?

   1. Lord Byron

   2. Christina Rossetti

   3. William Blake

   4. Robert Browning

6. Anansi is a trickster god in traditional West-African folklore. What animal does he normally appear as?

   1. Ladybird

   2. Caterpillar

   3. Spider

   4. Red ant

7. Who tells Chaucer’s cautionary tale against greed, in which three rogues plot to kill one another after discovering a pile of riches under an oak tree?

   1. The Pardoner

   2. The Wife of Bath

   3. The Physician

   4. The Parson

8. In JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, the "inspector" who calls on the Birlings to investigate their relationships with a recently deceased woman is revealed as a mysterious imposter. What is the name of the dead woman?

   1. Pauline Jones

   2. Sheila Croft

   3. Lizzie Goole

   4. Eva Smith

9. Simon Templar is the real name of The Saint, the trickster who gives his name to Leslie Charteris’ series of books. What is the famous image that always appeared on his calling card?

   1. A stick man walking into the gates of St Peter

   2. A stick man wearing a crucifix

   3. A stick man with a halo

   4. A stick man praying

10. In Jane Eyre, how does Mr Rochester disguise himself, in order to force Jane to reveal her feelings for him?

    1. As a tinker

    2. As a gypsy woman

    3. As a housemaid

    4. As a police officer

Solutions

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

Scores

1. 5 and above.

   Oh dear ... more April fool you.

2. 6 and above.

   A good attempt, you're nobody's fool.

3. 9 and above.

   Well done, there's certainly no tricking you!