- 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) Jane Austen
B) Charles Dickens
C) Emily Brontë
D) Mark Twain
- 2. Which Shakespeare play features the line 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'?
A) Romeo and Juliet
B) Hamlet
C) Macbeth
D) Othello
- 3. Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) John Steinbeck
D) Virginia Woolf
- 4. What is the setting of 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville?
A) Whaling ship
B) Medieval castle
C) Space station
D) Western town
- 5. Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Emily Dickinson
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) Fahrenheit 451
D) 1984
- 7. What is the title of the novel that follows the life of Huckleberry Finn?
A) Oliver Twist
B) Treasure Island
C) Robinson Crusoe
D) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 8. Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) William Shakespeare
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Tennessee Williams
- 9. Which author wrote 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) Roald Dahl
B) Lewis Carroll
C) C.S. Lewis
D) J.K. Rowling
- 10. Who is the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Harper Lee
C) John Steinbeck
D) Mark Twain
- 11. Which Russian author wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Nikolai Gogol
D) Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 12. What is the title of the famous poem by Robert Frost that begins with 'Whose woods these are I think I know'?
A) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
B) The Road Not Taken
C) Fire and Ice
D) Acquainted with the Night
- 13. Which classic novel features the characters Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy?
A) Great Expectations
B) Wuthering Heights
C) Pride and Prejudice
D) Jane Eyre
- 14. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) Homer
B) John Milton
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Dante Alighieri
- 15. The novel 'Frankenstein' was written by which author?
A) H.G. Wells
B) Mary Shelley
C) Jules Verne
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) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) J.D. Salinger
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Sylvia Plath
- 18. Which Shakespeare play features the characters Rosalind and Orlando?
A) A Midsummer Night's Dream
B) As You Like It
C) Twelfth Night
D) The Merchant of Venice
- 19. Who wrote the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Charlotte Brontë
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Emily 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) Lord of the Flies
D) Animal Farm
- 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) George R.R. Martin
B) C.S. Lewis
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) Philip K. Dick
- 23. The novel 'Wuthering Heights' was written by which author?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Emily Brontë
C) George Eliot
D) Jane Austen
- 24. Who is the author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Isabel Allende
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) Little Women
B) Anne of Green Gables
C) Heidi
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) Arthur C. Clarke
B) H.G. Wells
C) Philip K. Dick
D) Jules Verne
- 28. Which author wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) John Milton
B) Emily Bronte
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Aldous Huxley
- 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) Little Women
B) Jane Eyre
C) Pride and Prejudice
D) Gone with the Wind
- 31. Who is the author of 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Herman Hesse
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Herman Melville
D) Edgar Allan Poe
- 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) 1984
C) Brave New World
D) Fahrenheit 451
- 33. Which Charles Dickens novel features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
A) David Copperfield
B) Oliver Twist
C) A Christmas Carol
D) Great Expectations
- 34. What is the last name of the sisters in Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women'?
A) Jones
B) Smith
C) Johnson
D) March
- 35. Which novel follows the story of Jean Valjean?
A) Anna Karenina
B) Les Misérables
C) Crime and Punishment
D) Great Expectations
- 36. Which dystopian novel by George Orwell explores themes of government surveillance and totalitarianism?
A) Fahrenheit 451
B) The Handmaid's Tale
C) Brave New World
D) 1984
- 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 Orwell
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) Aldous Huxley
D) Ray Bradbury
- 39. Who is the author of 'The Call of the Wild'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Stephen Crane
C) Jack London
D) Edgar Rice Burroughs
- 40. In 'The Great Gatsby', who is the narrator of the story?
A) Daisy Buchanan
B) Jay Gatsby
C) Nick Carraway
D) Tom Buchanan
- 41. What literary device is often described as 'the way a story is told'?
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Theme
D) Narrative
- 42. Who is the author of the novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?
A) Émile Zola
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Gustave Flaubert
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) Jane Eyre
C) Wuthering Heights
D) Little Women
- 44. Which Shakespeare play is known as the 'Scottish play'?
A) Othello
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) Macbeth
D) Hamlet
- 45. In 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', who is the King of the Fairies?
A) Titania
B) Demetrius
C) Puck
D) Oberon
- 46. Which novel features the character Holden Caulfield?
A) The Catcher in the Rye
B) Lord of the Flies
C) The Great Gatsby
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) Henrik Ibsen
B) Eugene O'Neill
C) August Strindberg
D) Anton Chekhov
- 49. Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Herman Melville
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Emily Dickinson
- 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) Bounty
B) Endeavour
C) Nautilus
D) Pequod
- 52. What is the title of the novel about a dystopian future society divided into factions based on virtues?
A) The Giver
B) The Maze Runner
C) Ready Player One
D) Divergent
- 53. What is the title of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald set during the Roaring Twenties?
A) This Side of Paradise
B) The Great Gatsby
C) Tender Is the Night
D) The Beautiful and Damned
- 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) Ovid
C) Homer
D) Apollonius of Rhodes
- 56. Who wrote the play 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Harold Pinter
C) Eugene O'Neill
D) Arthur Miller
- 57. Which Nobel Prize-winning author wrote 'Beloved' and 'Song of Solomon'?
A) Alice Walker
B) Maya Angelou
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Toni Morrison
- 58. In 'The Divine Comedy', what is the name of the main character who journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven?
A) Dante
B) Virgil
C) Milton
D) Homer
- 59. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Franz Kafka
C) James Joyce
D) Joseph Conrad
- 60. Who wrote the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
A) Arthur Miller
B) Lorraine Hansberry
C) Tennessee Williams
D) Samuel Beckett
- 61. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
A) Victor's Creation
B) The Undying Creature
C) Monster's Legacy
D) The Modern Prometheus
- 62. Which author created the detective character Sherlock Holmes?
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Agatha Christie
D) Raymond Chandler
- 63. Who is the protagonist in J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Jay Gatsby
B) Scout Finch
C) Holden Caulfield
D) Atticus Finch
- 64. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Anna Akhmatova
D) Leo Tolstoy
- 65. What is the primary setting of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Maycomb, Alabama
B) Los Angeles, California
C) Chicago, Illinois
D) New York City, New York
- 66. Who is the author of the children's book 'Charlotte's Web'?
A) P.D. Eastman
B) Margaret Wise Brown
C) E.B. White
D) Dr. Seuss
- 67. In 'Romeo and Juliet', what family does Juliet belong to?
A) Capulet
B) Montague
C) Verona
D) Thorn
- 68. In 'The Great Gatsby', what is Jay Gatsby's real name?
A) John Wilson
B) George Buchanon
C) James Gatz
D) Tom Carraway
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