- 1. Literature encompasses written works that express ideas, emotions, and experiences through language. It serves as a reflection of society, culture, and human nature, providing insights into the human condition. Through various genres such as poetry, prose, drama, and fiction, literature allows individuals to explore different perspectives, challenge their beliefs, and understand the complexities of the world. It has the power to evoke empathy, provoke thought, and inspire change. Literature captures the beauty of language, the depth of emotions, and the richness of imagination, making it a timeless and invaluable aspect of human expression.
Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Charles Dickens
C) Jane Austen
D) Mark Twain
- 2. Which Shakespeare play features the line 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'?
A) Macbeth
B) Hamlet
C) Romeo and Juliet
D) Othello
- 3. Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Virginia Woolf
D) John Steinbeck
- 4. What is the setting of 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville?
A) Whaling ship
B) Western town
C) Medieval castle
D) Space station
- 5. Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Robert Frost
D) Edgar Allan Poe
- 6. Which dystopian novel features a society divided into districts controlled by the Capitol?
A) The Hunger Games
B) Brave New World
C) 1984
D) Fahrenheit 451
- 7. What is the title of the novel that follows the life of Huckleberry Finn?
A) Robinson Crusoe
B) Oliver Twist
C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D) Treasure Island
- 8. Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Tennessee Williams
C) William Shakespeare
D) Anton Chekhov
- 9. Which author wrote 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) Roald Dahl
C) C.S. Lewis
D) Lewis Carroll
- 10. Who is the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Harper Lee
B) Emily Brontë
C) Mark Twain
D) John Steinbeck
- 11. Which Russian author wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Nikolai Gogol
- 12. What is the title of the famous poem by Robert Frost that begins with 'Whose woods these are I think I know'?
A) Acquainted with the Night
B) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
C) The Road Not Taken
D) Fire and Ice
- 13. Which classic novel features the characters Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Wuthering Heights
C) Jane Eyre
D) Great Expectations
- 14. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) John Milton
C) Dante Alighieri
D) Homer
- 15. The novel 'Frankenstein' was written by which author?
A) Jules Verne
B) Mary Shelley
C) H.G. Wells
D) Bram Stoker
- 16. What is the final book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series?
A) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
B) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
C) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
D) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- 17. Who is the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) J.D. Salinger
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 18. Which Shakespeare play features the characters Rosalind and Orlando?
A) A Midsummer Night's Dream
B) The Merchant of Venice
C) Twelfth Night
D) As You Like It
- 19. Who wrote the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Emily Brontë
D) Charlotte Brontë
- 20. What is the title of the dystopian novel that portrays a society where books are banned?
A) Brave New World
B) Fahrenheit 451
C) Animal Farm
D) Lord of the Flies
- 21. Which American poet penned the line 'I sing the body electric'?
A) Robert Frost
B) Langston Hughes
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Walt Whitman
- 22. Who is the author of 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy?
A) C.S. Lewis
B) J.R.R. Tolkien
C) Philip K. Dick
D) George R.R. Martin
- 23. The novel 'Wuthering Heights' was written by which author?
A) George Eliot
B) Charlotte Brontë
C) Jane Austen
D) Emily Brontë
- 24. Who is the author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Pablo Neruda
B) Isabel Allende
C) Jorge Luis Borges
D) Gabriel García Márquez
- 25. What is the title of the novel about the adventures of a young orphaned girl written by Lucy Maud Montgomery?
A) Little Women
B) Heidi
C) Anne of Green Gables
D) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- 26. In the novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo', who is the main character seeking revenge?
A) Jean Valjean
B) Captain Ahab
C) Edmond Dantès
D) Dr. Jekyll
- 27. Who is the author of 'The War of the Worlds'?
A) H.G. Wells
B) Philip K. Dick
C) Arthur C. Clarke
D) Jules Verne
- 28. Which author wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) John Milton
B) Aldous Huxley
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Emily Bronte
- 29. In 'Lord of the Flies', who is the leader of the boys stranded on the deserted island?
A) Ralph
B) Piggy
C) Simon
D) Jack
- 30. In which novel does the character Scarlett O'Hara appear?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Gone with the Wind
C) Jane Eyre
D) Little Women
- 31. Who is the author of 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Herman Melville
D) Herman Hesse
- 32. Which dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley envisions a future society where emotions are controlled and individuality is suppressed?
A) The Handmaid's Tale
B) Brave New World
C) Fahrenheit 451
D) 1984
- 33. Which Charles Dickens novel features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
A) Great Expectations
B) David Copperfield
C) Oliver Twist
D) A Christmas Carol
- 34. What is the last name of the sisters in Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women'?
A) Smith
B) Johnson
C) March
D) Jones
- 35. Which novel follows the story of Jean Valjean?
A) Anna Karenina
B) Great Expectations
C) Les Misérables
D) Crime and Punishment
- 36. Which dystopian novel by George Orwell explores themes of government surveillance and totalitarianism?
A) The Handmaid's Tale
B) Brave New World
C) Fahrenheit 451
D) 1984
- 37. What is the pseudonym of the author Samuel Clemens?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Mark Twain
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Herman Melville
- 38. Who wrote the book '1984'?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) George Orwell
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Aldous Huxley
- 39. Who is the author of 'The Call of the Wild'?
A) Stephen Crane
B) Jack London
C) Edgar Rice Burroughs
D) Herman Melville
- 40. In 'The Great Gatsby', who is the narrator of the story?
A) Daisy Buchanan
B) Tom Buchanan
C) Nick Carraway
D) Jay Gatsby
- 41. What literary device is often described as 'the way a story is told'?
A) Theme
B) Narrative
C) Simile
D) Metaphor
- 42. Who is the author of the novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?
A) Gustave Flaubert
B) Émile Zola
C) Alexandre Dumas
D) Victor Hugo
- 43. Which classic novel follows the lives of the March sisters and is written by Louisa May Alcott?
A) Sense and Sensibility
B) Wuthering Heights
C) Little Women
D) Jane Eyre
- 44. Which Shakespeare play is known as the 'Scottish play'?
A) Romeo and Juliet
B) Macbeth
C) Othello
D) Hamlet
- 45. In 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', who is the King of the Fairies?
A) Demetrius
B) Puck
C) Oberon
D) Titania
- 46. Which novel features the character Holden Caulfield?
A) The Catcher in the Rye
B) The Great Gatsby
C) Brave New World
D) Lord of the Flies
- 47. Which author is known for the 'Hunger Games' trilogy?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) George R.R. Martin
C) Veronica Roth
D) Suzanne Collins
- 48. Who wrote the play 'A Doll's House'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Henrik Ibsen
C) Eugene O'Neill
D) August Strindberg
- 49. Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Herman Melville
- 50. Which Greek epic poem is attributed to Homer and tells the story of the Trojan War?
A) Odyssey
B) Aeneid
C) Metamorphoses
D) Iliad
- 51. What is the name of the ship in Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Endeavour
B) Bounty
C) Nautilus
D) Pequod
- 52. What is the title of the novel about a dystopian future society divided into factions based on virtues?
A) Divergent
B) The Giver
C) Ready Player One
D) The Maze Runner
- 53. What is the title of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald set during the Roaring Twenties?
A) This Side of Paradise
B) The Beautiful and Damned
C) Tender Is the Night
D) The Great Gatsby
- 54. 'The Road Not Taken' is a poem by which poet?
A) Robert Frost
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Langston Hughes
D) Sylvia Plath
- 55. Who wrote the epic poem 'The Iliad'?
A) Apollonius of Rhodes
B) Homer
C) Ovid
D) Virgil
- 56. Who wrote the play 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Harold Pinter
C) Arthur Miller
D) Eugene O'Neill
- 57. Which Nobel Prize-winning author wrote 'Beloved' and 'Song of Solomon'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Alice Walker
C) Maya Angelou
D) Zora Neale Hurston
- 58. In 'The Divine Comedy', what is the name of the main character who journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven?
A) Virgil
B) Dante
C) Milton
D) Homer
- 59. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
A) Franz Kafka
B) Joseph Conrad
C) James Joyce
D) Ernest Hemingway
- 60. Who wrote the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
A) Arthur Miller
B) Tennessee Williams
C) Samuel Beckett
D) Lorraine Hansberry
- 61. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
A) Victor's Creation
B) Monster's Legacy
C) The Undying Creature
D) The Modern Prometheus
- 62. Which author created the detective character Sherlock Holmes?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Agatha Christie
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) Raymond Chandler
- 63. Who is the protagonist in J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Scout Finch
B) Jay Gatsby
C) Atticus Finch
D) Holden Caulfield
- 64. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Anna Akhmatova
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) Leo Tolstoy
- 65. What is the primary setting of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Maycomb, Alabama
B) New York City, New York
C) Chicago, Illinois
D) Los Angeles, California
- 66. Who is the author of the children's book 'Charlotte's Web'?
A) Dr. Seuss
B) P.D. Eastman
C) Margaret Wise Brown
D) E.B. White
- 67. In 'Romeo and Juliet', what family does Juliet belong to?
A) Montague
B) Capulet
C) Thorn
D) Verona
- 68. In 'The Great Gatsby', what is Jay Gatsby's real name?
A) George Buchanon
B) Tom Carraway
C) James Gatz
D) John Wilson
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