English literature
  • 1. English literature is a vast and rich tradition that spans centuries and includes a wide range of genres, styles, and voices. From the epic poems of Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales to the plays of William Shakespeare and the novels of Jane Austen, English literature offers a window into the cultural, social, and political history of England and the world. Its diverse and enduring works explore themes of love, betrayal, heroism, identity, and more, resonating with readers across time and place. Whether delving into the lyrical beauty of Romantic poetry or the dark depths of modernist fiction, English literature continues to captivate and inspire readers of all ages.

    Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) George Orwell
B) Jane Austen
C) Emily Brontë
D) Charles Dickens
  • 2. Which Brontë sister wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Elizabeth Gaskell
B) Emily Brontë
C) Anne Brontë
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 3. What is the poetic form consisting of fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme called?
A) Haiku
B) Limerick
C) Epic
D) Sonnet
  • 4. Who is the author of the play 'Macbeth'?
A) Christopher Marlowe
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) William Shakespeare
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 5. Which of the following is not a Shakespearean comedy?
A) Hamlet
B) The Taming of the Shrew
C) Twelfth Night
D) A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 6. Who wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Mark Twain
D) Charles Dickens
  • 7. In which novel would you find the characters Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim?
A) Moby-Dick
B) Wuthering Heights
C) Oliver Twist
D) A Christmas Carol
  • 8. Which novel features the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C) Lord of the Flies
D) To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 9. Who is the author of the novel '1984'?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) Ray Bradbury
C) J.D. Salinger
D) George Orwell
  • 10. What is the full title of the famous novel 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Moby-Dick; or, The Shark
B) Moby-Dick; or, The Fish
C) Moby-Dick; or, The Octopus
D) Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
  • 11. Who wrote the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Arthur Miller
C) Henrik Ibsen
D) Anton Chekhov
  • 12. What is the sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) The Wizard of Oz
B) Through the Looking-Glass
C) Peter Pan
D) The Wind in the Willows
  • 13. Which author wrote the novel 'Lord of the Flies'?
A) Philip Pullman
B) C.S. Lewis
C) William Golding
D) J.R.R. Tolkien
  • 14. Who is the author of the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Charles Dickens
C) Emily Brontë
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 15. Who wrote the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) John Steinbeck
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Harper Lee
  • 16. Which character narrates 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Jay Gatsby
B) Scout Finch
C) Holden Caulfield
D) Atticus Finch
  • 17. What is the full title of the novel commonly known as 'Frankenstein'?
A) Frankenstein; or, The Monster
B) Frankenstein; or, The Creation
C) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
D) Frankenstein; or, The Experiment
  • 18. In 'The Great Gatsby', where does Jay Gatsby live?
A) Long Island
B) West Egg
C) East Egg
D) Manhattan
  • 19. Which classic novel is based on the experiences of the March sisters?
A) Sense and Sensibility
B) Little Women
C) Jane Eyre
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 20. Who wrote the novel 'Dracula'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) H.P. Lovecraft
C) Mary Shelley
D) Bram Stoker
  • 21. Which literary character is known for his famous pipe and deerstalker hat?
A) Hercule Poirot
B) Dr. Jekyll
C) Sherlock Holmes
D) Miss Marple
  • 22. Who wrote the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Oscar Wilde
B) Voltaire
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Albert Camus
  • 23. What is the opening line of Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
A) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
B) In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
C) Happy families are all alike
D) Call me Ishmael
  • 24. Who is the protagonist of 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy?
A) Frodo Baggins
B) Gandalf
C) Aragorn
D) Bilbo Baggins
  • 25. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
A) The Hound of the Baskervilles
B) The Modern Prometheus
C) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
D) The Man Who Was Thursday
  • 26. Which novel is considered a satire of Stalinism and the Soviet Union?
A) Fahrenheit 451
B) Animal Farm
C) Brave New World
D) 1984
  • 27. Who is the author of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series?
A) Philip Pullman
B) J.K. Rowling
C) Roald Dahl
D) C.S. Lewis
  • 28. Who wrote the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Robert Frost
C) William Wordsworth
D) Langston Hughes
  • 29. Which novel starts with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) Moby Dick
D) 1984
  • 30. Who is the protagonist in George Orwell's novel '1984'?
A) Holden Caulfield
B) Atticus Finch
C) Winston Smith
D) John Proctor
  • 31. Which author wrote the novel 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Harper Lee
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 32. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) William Blake
B) John Milton
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 33. In which novel do we follow the adventures of the young wizard Harry Potter?
A) Twilight
B) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
C) The Hunger Games
D) Divergent
  • 34. Who wrote the novel 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A) Harper Lee
B) Herman Melville
C) John Steinbeck
D) J.K. Rowling
  • 35. Which novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald features the character Jay Gatsby?
A) This Side of Paradise
B) Tender is the Night
C) The Great Gatsby
D) The Beautiful and Damned
  • 36. Who wrote the play 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) August Wilson
B) Tennessee Williams
C) Eugene O'Neill
D) Arthur Miller
  • 37. Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) John Milton
C) Emily Bronte
D) Walt Whitman
  • 38. In 'The Great Gatsby', what symbolizes the American Dream?
A) Red rose
B) Silver key
C) Green light
D) Golden coin
  • 39. Which author wrote 'Moby Dick'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Henry David Thoreau
  • 40. Who wrote the novel 'Little Women'?
A) Louisa May Alcott
B) Jane Austen
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Charlotte Bronte
  • 41. Who wrote the satire 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Daniel Defoe
C) Samuel Richardson
D) Henry Fielding
  • 42. Which author is known for writing 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
A) Sophocles
B) Aeschylus
C) Homer
D) Euripides
  • 43. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', who is the protagonist?
A) Boo Radley
B) Atticus Finch
C) Tom Robinson
D) Scout Finch
  • 44. What is the title of Harper Lee's second novel, published in 2015?
A) To Kill a Mockingbird
B) Brave New World
C) Go Set a Watchman
D) Mockingjay
  • 45. Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?
A) Mary Shelley
B) Bram Stoker
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) H.P. Lovecraft
  • 46. Which author is famous for writing 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Homer
C) John Milton
D) Joseph Conrad
  • 47. In which country was author Oscar Wilde born?
A) England
B) Ireland
C) Italy
D) France
  • 48. Who is the author of 'Les Misérables'?
A) Albert Camus
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Victor Hugo
  • 49. What is the title of the first Sherlock Holmes novel?
A) The Hound of the Baskervilles
B) The Sign of the Four
C) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
D) A Study in Scarlet
  • 50. In 'The Great Gatsby', what is the real name of the character Jay Gatsby?
A) John Green
B) James Gatz
C) Tom Buchanan
D) Nick Carraway
  • 51. Who is the author of the novel 'Brave New World'?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) George Orwell
C) Aldous Huxley
D) Philip K. Dick
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