World literature
  • 1. World literature refers to literature from all around the globe, encompassing works written in various languages, cultures, and historical periods. It reflects the diversity of human experience and offers insights into different societies, perspectives, and traditions. World literature bridges the gap between cultures and allows us to explore universal themes such as love, war, identity, and human nature. Through the power of storytelling, world literature nurtures empathy, fosters understanding, and promotes intercultural dialogue. It has the ability to transcend borders and connect people from different corners of the world through shared stories and shared humanity.

    Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) William Shakespeare
C) Jane Austen
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 2. Which ancient poet wrote 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
A) Sappho
B) Homer
C) Ovid
D) Virgil
  • 3. Who is the author of the novel 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Franz Kafka
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • 4. Which author wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) J.K. Rowling
C) Mark Twain
D) Harper Lee
  • 5. Who is the writer of 'The Divine Comedy'?
A) Miguel de Cervantes
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Herman Melville
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
  • 6. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Nikolai Gogol
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 7. Which Greek philosopher wrote 'The Republic'?
A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Epicurus
D) Socrates
  • 8. Who is the author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Joseph Conrad
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Emily Bronte
  • 9. Which author wrote 'Don Quixote'?
A) Miguel de Cervantes
B) Gustave Flaubert
C) Victor Hugo
D) Tolstoy
  • 10. Who wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) William Faulkner
C) Herman Melville
D) Thomas Hardy
  • 11. Which American author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) John Steinbeck
  • 12. Who authored the novel 'Les Misérables'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 13. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
A) Henry James
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) H.G. Wells
D) Joseph Conrad
  • 14. Who is the author of 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) William Wordsworth
B) John Keats
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) John Milton
  • 15. Which author wrote 'The Metamorphosis'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Hermann Hesse
C) Franz Kafka
D) Thomas Mann
  • 16. Which Brazilian author wrote 'The Alchemist'?
A) Machado de Assis
B) Paulo Coelho
C) Jorge Amado
D) Clarice Lispector
  • 17. Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) William Faulkner
C) John Steinbeck
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 18. Which author wrote 'The Stranger'?
A) Albert Camus
B) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Franz Kafka
D) Hermann Hesse
  • 19. Who is the author of 'Mrs Dalloway'?
A) D.H. Lawrence
B) Virginia Woolf
C) George Orwell
D) E.M. Forster
  • 20. Which Chinese author wrote 'Dream of the Red Chamber'?
A) Cao Xueqin
B) Mo Yan
C) Lu Xun
D) Yu Hua
  • 21. Who wrote 'Madame Bovary'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Émile Zola
  • 22. Which American novelist wrote 'Beloved'?
A) Alice Walker
B) Toni Morrison
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Maya Angelou
  • 23. Which Mexican author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990?
A) Julio Cortazar
B) Carlos Fuentes
C) Octavio Paz
D) Laura Esquivel
  • 24. Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?
A) George Orwell
B) Philip K. Dick
C) Aldous Huxley
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 25. Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for 'Midnight's Children'?
A) Vikram Seth
B) Arundhati Roy
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Salman Rushdie
  • 26. Which Japanese author wrote 'Norwegian Wood'?
A) Natsume Sōseki
B) Ryunosuke Akutagawa
C) Yukio Mishima
D) Haruki Murakami
  • 27. What novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering?
A) The Brothers Karamazov
B) The Idiot
C) Notes from Underground
D) Crime and Punishment
  • 28. Which Nobel Laureate from Egypt wrote 'Palace Walk'?
A) Salwa Bakr
B) Tawfiq al-Hakim
C) Naguib Mahfouz
D) Radwa Ashour
  • 29. Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 30. Who wrote the poem 'The Waste Land'?
A) William Butler Yeats
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Ezra Pound
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 31. Which author is known for writing 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) William Faulkner
B) John Steinbeck
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 32. Which author wrote the satirical novel 'Candide'?
A) Jules Verne
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Voltaire
D) Ralph Ellison
  • 33. Who wrote 'The Road'?
A) David Foster Wallace
B) Thomas Pynchon
C) Cormac McCarthy
D) Don DeLillo
  • 34. Who is the author of the novel 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'?
A) Boris Pasternak
B) Ivan Turgenev
C) Vladimir Nabokov
D) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • 35. Which novel by Victor Hugo features the character Jean Valjean?
A) The Man Who Laughs
B) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
C) Toilers of the Sea
D) Les Misérables
  • 36. Who is the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?
A) Gustave Flaubert
B) Émile Zola
C) Alexandre Dumas
D) Victor Hugo
  • 37. Which Irish author wrote 'Ulysses'?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Samuel Beckett
C) James Joyce
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 38. Who wrote the novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Henry David Thoreau
D) Herman Melville
  • 39. Which novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family in the town of Macondo?
A) The Autumn of the Patriarch
B) Love in the Time of Cholera
C) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
D) One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • 40. Which author is famous for 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series?
A) J.R.R. Tolkien
B) Terry Pratchett
C) Douglas Adams
D) Philip K. Dick
  • 41. 'The Book Thief' is a novel by which Australian author?
A) Tim Winton
B) Liane Moriarty
C) Christos Tsiolkas
D) Markus Zusak
  • 42. Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
A) Bleak House
B) A Christmas Carol
C) Oliver Twist
D) Great Expectations
  • 43. Which novel by Chinua Achebe chronicles pre-colonial life in Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans?
A) Anthills of the Savannah
B) Things Fall Apart
C) Arrow of God
D) No Longer at Ease
  • 44. Who is the author of 'Invisible Man'?
A) Richard Wright
B) James Baldwin
C) Toni Morrison
D) Ralph Ellison
  • 45. Which American novel begins with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) The Catcher in the Rye
B) Moby-Dick
C) The Great Gatsby
D) To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 46. Who is the author of 'Things Fall Apart'?
A) Nadine Gordimer
B) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Wole Soyinka
  • 47. Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Jane Austen
C) Charlotte Bronte
D) Emily Bronte
  • 48. Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?
A) Margaret Atwood
B) J.K. Rowling
C) Kazuo Ishiguro
D) Haruki Murakami
  • 49. Who is the author of the play 'A Doll's House'?
A) August Strindberg
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Henrik Ibsen
D) George Bernard Shaw
  • 50. Which Greek tragedian wrote 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'?
A) Sophocles
B) Euripides
C) Herodotus
D) Aeschylus
  • 51. Who wrote the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Harper Lee
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Charles Dickens
  • 52. Which novel by Albert Camus explores the philosophy of the absurd?
A) The Myth of Sisyphus
B) The Fall
C) The Plague
D) The Stranger
  • 53. Who wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Emily Brontë
B) George Eliot
C) Anne Brontë
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 54. Who is the author of the novel '1984'?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) Ray Bradbury
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) George Orwell
  • 55. Who wrote the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) George Eliot
B) Emily Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Anne Brontë
  • 56. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) Alexander Pope
B) John Milton
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) Andrew Marvell
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