Question 1 of 15
Shakespeare's The Tempest opens with what weather event?
Why: The play opens with a shipwreck-inducing storm.
Question 2 of 15
What Steinbeck novel is set during the Dust Bowl?
Why: The Joads flee Oklahoma drought and dust storms.
Question 3 of 15
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights takes its name from what?
Why: Wuthering means stormy in Yorkshire dialect.
Question 4 of 15
Which Dickens novel opens with dense London fog?
Why: Bleak House famously opens with fog everywhere.
Question 5 of 15
What Hemingway novel is set during a Cuban hurricane?
Why: Islands in the Stream includes storm sequences.
Question 6 of 15
Wizard of Oz opens with what weather event?
Why: The Kansas tornado sweeps Dorothy to Oz.
Question 7 of 15
Ray Bradbury's 'All Summer in a Day' is set on what planet?
Why: Venus, where the sun comes out for one hour every seven years.
Question 8 of 15
What Herman Melville novel features The Pequod caught in a storm?
Why: Moby-Dick has multiple storm scenes.
Question 9 of 15
Which Kate Chopin story is set during a Louisiana storm?
Why: 'The Storm' is a short story that uses weather as metaphor.
Question 10 of 15
In Frankenstein, what weather accompanies the monster's creation?
Why: Victor animates the creature during a thunderstorm.
Question 11 of 15
The Handmaid's Tale is set in what weather-related dystopia?
Why: Environmental collapse is part of Gilead's origin.
Question 12 of 15
Robert Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' features what weather?
Why: The woods are 'lovely, dark and deep' with snow.
Question 13 of 15
Ernest Shackleton's men were trapped by what weather event?
Why: Antarctic sea ice crushed the Endurance.
Question 14 of 15
In The Perfect Storm, what type of weather system doomed the Andrea Gail?
Why: The Halloween 1991 storm was a Nor'easter merging with Hurricane Grace.
Question 15 of 15
What Cormac McCarthy novel is set in a post-apocalyptic ash-covered world?
Why: The Road features perpetual gray ash-filled sky.