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Whether you?re fulfilled or disappointed in love, test your romantic knowledge in our literary quiz based on the Penguin Classics.

1) According to Chaucer, what happens on St Valentine's Day?
People go on pilgrimages

Birds choose their mates

Wives defy their husbands

Knights go on crusade

2) 'Do you think me handsome?' 'No, sir.' Between which two characters (who ultimately marry one another) does this exchange take place?
Mr Rochester and Jane Eyre

Heathcliff and Catherine

Emma and Mr Knightley

David Copperfield and Dora Spenlow

3) 'The rose is red/The violet blue/Carnations sweet/And so are you.' In which Thomas Hardy novel does this Valentine's message appear?
Tess of the D?Urbervilles

The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Trumpet Major

Far from the Madding Crowd

4) How many times is Elizabeth Bennet proposed to in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
Once

Twice

Three times

Four times

5) With whom is Romeo in love at the beginning of Shakespeare's famous romantic tragedy?
Juliet

Rosaline

Portia

Cordelia

6) 'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways!' This is the famous first line from one of a sequence of sonnets by which poet?
Christina Rossetti

Emily Bront

Charlotte Bront

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

7) Who is the object of Dante's love in the sequence of poems contained in La Vita Nuova?
Lucretia

Laura

Fornarina

Beatrice

8) In Zola's novel Germinal where do the hero Itienne Lantier and Catherine Maheu consummate their love?
In a hotel

In a flooded mine

In a barn

They never do

9) In Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, how does Levin propose to Kitty?
He chalks his proposal on a card table

He writes to her

He proposes during a carriage ride

He asks Anna to propose on his behalf

10) In Ovid's Metamorphoses Baucis and Philemon are a deeply devoted couple who willingly offer hospitality to strangers, not knowing that their guests are gods in disguise. How does Zeus reward them?
When the time comes for them to die, they become trees whose branches interlink

They are transformed into gods

They are given immortality

They are changed into stars
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