Homer's Odyssey follows a hero sailing home to Ithaca for ten years after the fall of Troy, while gods on Mount Olympus argue over him. Which country and period does the work belong to?

Which detail shows that the Odyssey belongs to ancient Greece rather than to a later European age?

Alexander Pope's Iliad opens in rhymed heroic couplets: "Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring / Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!" Which country and period does this translation belong to?

Sophocles wrote Antigone for a drama festival where citizens watched tragedies in an open-air theater, in the years Pericles led the city and the Parthenon was being built. Where and when was it first performed?

Antigone was first staged in one Greek city, but its story of a ruler's order and a forbidden burial takes place in another. In which city is the story set?

A reader says ancient Greek plays always show citizens obeying the ruler. Which fact about Antigone shows the claim fails?

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is set in a Norwegian home at Christmas. A wife forged her father's signature to get a secret loan, because the law then barred a wife from borrowing without her husband's consent. In which decade did it first appear?

Ibsen was Norwegian, but A Doll's House had its first performance in Copenhagen, Denmark.

A student claims every European play of the 1800s ends with the wife staying in the family home. Which ending shows the claim fails?

In The Necklace, a clerk's wife borrows a diamond necklace for a ministry ball, loses it, and spends ten years paying for a replacement. Which country and period does the story belong to?

The film Life Is Beautiful begins in 1939 in Arezzo, in Tuscany, and follows a father who turns a camp into a game for his son. Which country made it, and in which decade was it released?

Near its end, Les Miserables shows students and workers throwing up a barricade in a city street and facing the army. Which city and year does that uprising belong to?

A claim says French novels of the 1800s show only the comfortable city classes. Which part of Les Miserables shows the claim fails?

The Little Prince was written and drawn by a French airmail pilot who was living in exile in New York during the war. Where and when did the book first appear?

Thomas Wyatt's sonnet begins "Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind", reworking a sonnet by Petrarch. Which places and periods do the two poets belong to?

In the Decameron, ten young people leave a city where plague is killing thousands and tell stories at a country villa. Which city and year does that frame belong to?

A claim says stories from medieval Europe are all solemn religious lessons. Which fact about the Decameron shows the claim fails?

The Epic of Gilgamesh names a king of the walled city of Uruk and survives on clay tablets pressed with cuneiform signs. Which region does the work come from?

In God Sees the Truth But Waits, a merchant from Vladimir is convicted of a murder he did not commit and sent to hard labor in Siberia. Which country and period does the story belong to?

The film Parasite sets one family in a damp semi-basement flat and another in an architect's hillside house above the same city. Which country and decade does the film belong to?