Welcome to the ultimate Classic Authors quiz featuring Brainscape’s flashcards (https://www.brainscape.com) from our ‘Get Smarter’ collection of general knowledge flashcards! Find those (and more literature flashcards) here:

• https://www.brainscape.com/learn/get-smarter
• https://www.brainscape.com/subjects/english/ (User-generated English literature flashcards)
• https://www.brainscape.com/subjects/english/classic-novels/ (User-generated classic novels flashcards)

In this video, we'll test your smarts with a selection of questions and answers that cover a wide range of the world’s most beloved, classic literature and authors. Some of the questions covered include:

0:15 - Which 10th and 11th-century Japanese author wrote what is widely considered to be the world’s first novel, ‘The tale of Genji’?

0:47 - Which French author is known for his classic ‘Fables’, a series of stories with animal characters that poke fun at, and dispense moral lessons about the human condition?

1:25 - Which German author and politician wrote the two-part play ‘Faust’, considered to be Germany’s greatest contribution to world literature?

The questions and answers you see on the screen are actually screen recordings of Brainscape’s Classic Authors flashcards from our ‘Get Smarter’ collection (https://www.brainscape.com/learn/get-smarter), one of the most effective tools for improving your baseline knowledge in all the things you wished you’d learned in school! 

With our sophisticated spaced repetition algorithm—and blend of cognitive learning tactics like active recall, metacognition, and interleaving practice—Brainscape empowers you to easily learn and retain large amounts of information, anytime and anywhere. Check out how it works here: https://www.brainscape.com/spaced-repetition

So, whether you're a literature student, passionate reader, trivia buff, or just someone who loves to learn new things, this video, and the other 6 sets in this series, are totally for you! So sit back, relax, and get ready to put your knowledge to the test and get smarter (https://www.brainscape.com/academy/get-smarter/) with Brainscape's flashcards. 

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