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