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