Classics
  • 1. Classics refers to the study of literature, art, history, philosophy, and other cultural works of ancient Greece and Rome. It involves the exploration and interpretation of texts and artifacts that have withstood the test of time and continue to influence modern society. Studying classics allows us to gain insight into the foundations of Western civilization, appreciate the beauty and complexity of ancient languages and cultures, and understand the enduring legacy of ideas that have shaped the world we live in today.

    Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Jane Austen
B) Emily Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Agatha Christie
  • 2. What is the setting of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) London
B) Paris
C) Long Island
D) New York City
  • 3. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 4. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', who is the protagonist?
A) Boo Radley
B) Jem Finch
C) Atticus Finch
D) Scout Finch
  • 5. Who is the author of '1984'?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) George Orwell
C) Philip K. Dick
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 6. Which Greek philosopher wrote 'The Republic'?
A) Socrates
B) Heraclitus
C) Aristotle
D) Plato
  • 7. Who wrote 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) C.S. Lewis
B) Roald Dahl
C) Lewis Carroll
D) J.R.R. Tolkien
  • 8. Who wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Jack Kerouac
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 9. Which author wrote 'Frankenstein'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Mary Shelley
C) H.G. Wells
D) Bram Stoker
  • 10. What is the subtitle of 'Don Quixote'?
A) The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
B) Quixote's Tale
C) The Knight Errant
D) The Quest for Glory
  • 11. Which novel features the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
A) Swiss Family Robinson
B) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C) The Call of the Wild
D) Treasure Island
  • 12. In 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', who paints Dorian's portrait?
A) Basil Hallward
B) Alan Campbell
C) Lord Henry Wotton
D) Sibyl Vane
  • 13. Who is the author of 'The Odyssey'?
A) Herodotus
B) Homer
C) Euripides
D) Virgil
  • 14. What novel features the character Holden Caulfield?
A) Lord of the Flies
B) Fahrenheit 451
C) Brave New World
D) The Catcher in the Rye
  • 15. Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Nikolai Gogol
D) Anton Chekhov
  • 16. In 'The Lord of the Rings', who is the main antagonist?
A) Gollum
B) Sauron
C) Saruman
D) The Witch-king
  • 17. Which character is the Little Women series centered around?
A) Beth March
B) Jo March
C) Amy March
D) Meg March
  • 18. Who wrote the play 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Samuel Beckett
B) Eugene O'Neill
C) Arthur Miller
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 19. Who wrote 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'?
A) Patricia Highsmith
B) Agatha Christie
C) Daphne du Maurier
D) Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 20. Which novel features the character Elizabeth Bennet?
A) Sense and Sensibility
B) Persuasion
C) Emma
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 21. Who is the author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Isabel Allende
B) Mario Vargas Llosa
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Jorge Luis Borges
  • 22. Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) William Wordsworth
B) John Donne
C) John Milton
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
  • 23. Which American author wrote 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Mark Twain
  • 24. Which character famously shouts 'It's alive!' in 'Frankenstein'?
A) Henry Clerval
B) The Creature
C) Elizabeth Lavenza
D) Victor Frankenstein
  • 25. Who authored 'Great Expectations'?
A) Jane Austen
B) Emily Bronte
C) Charles Dickens
D) George Eliot
  • 26. In 'Les Misérables', who is the police inspector pursuing Jean Valjean?
A) Fantine
B) Javert
C) Marius
D) Cosette
  • 27. Who is the author of 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) Jane Austen
B) Emily Brontë
C) Mary Shelley
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 28. Who is the author of 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) John Steinbeck
C) William Faulkner
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 29. Which ancient author wrote 'The Histories'?
A) Homer
B) Herodotus
C) Thucydides
D) Plutarch
  • 30. Who is the protagonist in Homer's 'The Odyssey'?
A) Odysseus
B) Orpheus
C) Achilles
D) Perseus
  • 31. Which Roman poet wrote 'The Aeneid'?
A) Seneca
B) Virgil
C) Ovid
D) Cicero
  • 32. Who is the main character in George Orwell's novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'?
A) John Watson
B) Elizabeth Bennet
C) Winston Smith
D) Atticus Finch
  • 33. Who wrote 'Don Quixote'?
A) Jorge Luis Borges
B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
C) Pablo Neruda
D) Miguel de Cervantes
  • 34. In 'The Catcher in the Rye', what is the name of the protagonist?
A) Jay Gatsby
B) Holden Caulfield
C) Raskolnikov
D) Atticus Finch
  • 35. Who wrote the tragedy 'King Lear'?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Thomas Kyd
C) Christopher Marlowe
D) Ben Jonson
  • 36. Who wrote 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Herman Melville
  • 37. Which ancient poet wrote 'The Metamorphoses'?
A) Homer
B) Ovid
C) Virgil
D) Seneca
  • 38. Who is the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) William Faulkner
B) Truman Capote
C) Harper Lee
D) Toni Morrison
  • 39. Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) Ray Bradbury
C) George Orwell
D) Philip K. Dick
  • 40. In 'Gulliver's Travels', what is the name of the land where people are less than 6 inches tall?
A) Lilliput
B) Houyhnhnms
C) Glubbdubdrib
D) Brobdingnag
  • 41. Which character is the protagonist of 'Dracula'?
A) Jonathan Harker
B) Mina Harker
C) Van Helsing
D) Count Dracula
  • 42. Which classic novel is an allegory for the Russian Revolution?
A) War and Peace
B) Lord of the Flies
C) Animal Farm
D) Frankenstein
  • 43. Whose memoir is 'The Diary of a Young Girl'?
A) Elie Wiesel
B) Harriet Jacobs
C) Anne Frank
D) Maya Angelou
  • 44. 'The Scarlet Letter' is set in which American state?
A) Massachusetts
B) California
C) Virginia
D) New York
  • 45. In 'The Great Gatsby', who is the narrator?
A) Daisy Buchanan
B) Nick Carraway
C) Jay Gatsby
D) Tom Buchanan
  • 46. Who penned the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 47. Who is the author of 'Little Women'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Louisa May Alcott
D) Agatha Christie
  • 48. What is the title of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel?
A) Moby Dick
B) 1984
C) To Kill a Mockingbird
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 49. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is a novel written by whom?
A) D.H. Lawrence
B) Oscar Wilde
C) James Joyce
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 50. Which ancient playwright wrote 'Medea'?
A) Aeschylus
B) Sophocles
C) Euripides
D) Aristophanes
  • 51. Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) William Faulkner
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 52. What is the name of the fictional city in Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'?
A) Huxley
B) Orwell
C) Wells
D) Montag
  • 53. In 'The Odyssey', who is the wife of Odysseus?
A) Penelope
B) Helen
C) Circe
D) Athena
  • 54. Which novel tells the story of a whale hunt and the captain obsessed with revenge?
A) Moby Dick
B) The Old Man and the Sea
C) Lord of the Flies
D) Heart of Darkness
  • 55. Which novel features the character Jean Valjean?
A) Les Misérables
B) The Count of Monte Cristo
C) Crime and Punishment
D) Anna Karenina
  • 56. Who wrote the play 'Antigone'?
A) Sophocles
B) Plato
C) Euripides
D) Aeschylus
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