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