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