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