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