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