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) Leo Tolstoy
B) Charles Dickens
C) William Shakespeare
D) Jane Austen
  • 2. Which ancient poet wrote 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
A) Homer
B) Ovid
C) Sappho
D) Virgil
  • 3. Who is the author of the novel 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Franz Kafka
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • 4. Which author wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Harper Lee
B) J.K. Rowling
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Mark Twain
  • 5. Who is the writer of 'The Divine Comedy'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Miguel de Cervantes
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
  • 6. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 7. Which Greek philosopher wrote 'The Republic'?
A) Epicurus
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Aristotle
  • 8. Who is the author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Joseph Conrad
D) Emily Bronte
  • 9. Which author wrote 'Don Quixote'?
A) Gustave Flaubert
B) Victor Hugo
C) Tolstoy
D) Miguel de Cervantes
  • 10. Who wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'?
A) William Faulkner
B) Charles Dickens
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) Charles Baudelaire
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Victor Hugo
  • 13. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) H.G. Wells
C) Joseph Conrad
D) Henry James
  • 14. Who is the author of 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) John Milton
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Keats
  • 15. Which author wrote 'The Metamorphosis'?
A) Hermann Hesse
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Franz Kafka
D) Thomas Mann
  • 16. Which Brazilian author wrote 'The Alchemist'?
A) Machado de Assis
B) Paulo Coelho
C) Clarice Lispector
D) Jorge Amado
  • 17. Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) John Steinbeck
D) William Faulkner
  • 18. Which author wrote 'The Stranger'?
A) Hermann Hesse
B) Albert Camus
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
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) Lu Xun
B) Yu Hua
C) Mo Yan
D) Cao Xueqin
  • 21. Who wrote 'Madame Bovary'?
A) Émile Zola
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Victor Hugo
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 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) Laura Esquivel
B) Carlos Fuentes
C) Julio Cortazar
D) Octavio Paz
  • 24. Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?
A) George Orwell
B) Ray Bradbury
C) Philip K. Dick
D) Aldous Huxley
  • 25. Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for 'Midnight's Children'?
A) Jhumpa Lahiri
B) Vikram Seth
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Arundhati Roy
  • 26. Which Japanese author wrote 'Norwegian Wood'?
A) Ryunosuke Akutagawa
B) Yukio Mishima
C) Natsume Sōseki
D) Haruki Murakami
  • 27. What novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering?
A) Crime and Punishment
B) Notes from Underground
C) The Brothers Karamazov
D) The Idiot
  • 28. Which Nobel Laureate from Egypt wrote 'Palace Walk'?
A) Naguib Mahfouz
B) Salwa Bakr
C) Radwa Ashour
D) Tawfiq al-Hakim
  • 29. Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Nikolai Gogol
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 30. Who wrote the poem 'The Waste Land'?
A) T.S. Eliot
B) Ezra Pound
C) William Butler Yeats
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 31. Which author is known for writing 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) John Steinbeck
D) William Faulkner
  • 32. Which author wrote the satirical novel 'Candide'?
A) Ralph Ellison
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Jules Verne
D) Voltaire
  • 33. Who wrote 'The Road'?
A) Don DeLillo
B) Cormac McCarthy
C) David Foster Wallace
D) Thomas Pynchon
  • 34. Who is the author of the novel 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'?
A) Ivan Turgenev
B) Vladimir Nabokov
C) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
D) Boris Pasternak
  • 35. Which novel by Victor Hugo features the character Jean Valjean?
A) Les Misérables
B) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
C) Toilers of the Sea
D) The Man Who Laughs
  • 36. Who is the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?
A) Alexandre Dumas
B) Gustave Flaubert
C) Émile Zola
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) Henry David Thoreau
C) Herman Melville
D) Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 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) One Hundred Years of Solitude
C) Love in the Time of Cholera
D) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  • 40. Which author is famous for 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series?
A) J.R.R. Tolkien
B) Douglas Adams
C) Philip K. Dick
D) Terry Pratchett
  • 41. 'The Book Thief' is a novel by which Australian author?
A) Liane Moriarty
B) Christos Tsiolkas
C) Tim Winton
D) Markus Zusak
  • 42. Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
A) Bleak House
B) Oliver Twist
C) Great Expectations
D) A Christmas Carol
  • 43. 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
  • 44. Who is the author of 'Invisible Man'?
A) James Baldwin
B) Richard Wright
C) Ralph Ellison
D) Toni Morrison
  • 45. Which American novel begins with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) Moby-Dick
B) The Catcher in the Rye
C) To Kill a Mockingbird
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 46. Who is the author of 'Things Fall Apart'?
A) Wole Soyinka
B) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
C) Nadine Gordimer
D) Chinua Achebe
  • 47. Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Emily Bronte
C) Charlotte Bronte
D) Jane Austen
  • 48. Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?
A) Haruki Murakami
B) Margaret Atwood
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 49. Who is the author of the play 'A Doll's House'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) Henrik Ibsen
D) August Strindberg
  • 50. Which Greek tragedian wrote 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'?
A) Euripides
B) Sophocles
C) Herodotus
D) Aeschylus
  • 51. Who wrote the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Harper Lee
D) Gabriel García Márquez
  • 52. Which novel by Albert Camus explores the philosophy of the absurd?
A) The Fall
B) The Plague
C) The Stranger
D) The Myth of Sisyphus
  • 53. Who wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
A) George Eliot
B) Emily Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Anne Brontë
  • 54. Who is the author of the novel '1984'?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) George Orwell
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) Aldous Huxley
  • 55. Who wrote the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) George Eliot
C) Anne Brontë
D) Emily Brontë
  • 56. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) John Milton
B) Alexander Pope
C) Andrew Marvell
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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