- 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) Mark Twain
C) Charles Dickens
D) Jane Austen
- 2. Which Shakespeare play features the line 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'?
A) Hamlet
B) Macbeth
C) Othello
D) Romeo and Juliet
- 3. Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Virginia Woolf
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 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) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Robert Frost
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Emily Dickinson
- 6. Which dystopian novel features a society divided into districts controlled by the Capitol?
A) The Hunger Games
B) 1984
C) Brave New World
D) Fahrenheit 451
- 7. What is the title of the novel that follows the life of Huckleberry Finn?
A) Treasure Island
B) Oliver Twist
C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D) Robinson Crusoe
- 8. Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) William Shakespeare
D) Tennessee Williams
- 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) John Steinbeck
D) Mark Twain
- 11. Which Russian author wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Anton Chekhov
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) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
B) Acquainted with the Night
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) Dante Alighieri
C) Homer
D) John Milton
- 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 Goblet of Fire
B) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
C) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
D) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- 17. Who is the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) J.D. Salinger
- 18. Which Shakespeare play features the characters Rosalind and Orlando?
A) The Merchant of Venice
B) Twelfth Night
C) As You Like It
D) A Midsummer Night's Dream
- 19. Who wrote the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Emily Brontë
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Oscar Wilde
- 20. What is the title of the dystopian novel that portrays a society where books are banned?
A) Fahrenheit 451
B) Animal Farm
C) Brave New World
D) Lord of the Flies
- 21. Which American poet penned the line 'I sing the body electric'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Walt Whitman
C) Robert Frost
D) Emily Dickinson
- 22. Who is the author of 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy?
A) George R.R. Martin
B) Philip K. Dick
C) C.S. Lewis
D) J.R.R. Tolkien
- 23. The novel 'Wuthering Heights' was written by which author?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) George Eliot
D) Emily Brontë
- 24. Who is the author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Isabel Allende
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Jorge Luis Borges
D) Pablo Neruda
- 25. What is the title of the novel about the adventures of a young orphaned girl written by Lucy Maud Montgomery?
A) Heidi
B) Little Women
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) Captain Ahab
B) Dr. Jekyll
C) Edmond Dantès
D) Jean Valjean
- 27. Who is the author of 'The War of the Worlds'?
A) Jules Verne
B) Arthur C. Clarke
C) H.G. Wells
D) Philip K. Dick
- 28. Which author wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Aldous Huxley
C) Emily Bronte
D) John Milton
- 29. In 'Lord of the Flies', who is the leader of the boys stranded on the deserted island?
A) Jack
B) Piggy
C) Ralph
D) Simon
- 30. In which novel does the character Scarlett O'Hara appear?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Little Women
C) Gone with the Wind
D) Jane Eyre
- 31. Who is the author of 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Herman Melville
C) Edgar Allan Poe
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) 1984
C) Brave New World
D) Fahrenheit 451
- 33. Which Charles Dickens novel features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
A) Great Expectations
B) A Christmas Carol
C) Oliver Twist
D) David Copperfield
- 34. What is the last name of the sisters in Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women'?
A) March
B) Smith
C) Jones
D) Johnson
- 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) 1984
B) Fahrenheit 451
C) Brave New World
D) The Handmaid's Tale
- 37. What is the pseudonym of the author Samuel Clemens?
A) Mark Twain
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Herman Melville
- 38. Who wrote the book '1984'?
A) George Orwell
B) Aldous Huxley
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Ray Bradbury
- 39. Who is the author of 'The Call of the Wild'?
A) Edgar Rice Burroughs
B) Stephen Crane
C) Herman Melville
D) Jack London
- 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) Narrative
B) Simile
C) Metaphor
D) Theme
- 42. Who is the author of the novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?
A) Émile Zola
B) Victor Hugo
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Alexandre Dumas
- 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) Romeo and Juliet
B) Othello
C) Macbeth
D) Hamlet
- 45. In 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', who is the King of the Fairies?
A) Puck
B) Oberon
C) Demetrius
D) Titania
- 46. Which novel features the character Holden Caulfield?
A) Brave New World
B) The Great Gatsby
C) The Catcher in the Rye
D) Lord of the Flies
- 47. Which author is known for the 'Hunger Games' trilogy?
A) Suzanne Collins
B) Veronica Roth
C) George R.R. Martin
D) J.K. Rowling
- 48. Who wrote the play 'A Doll's House'?
A) Eugene O'Neill
B) Anton Chekhov
C) August Strindberg
D) Henrik Ibsen
- 49. Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Herman Melville
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Emily Dickinson
- 50. Which Greek epic poem is attributed to Homer and tells the story of the Trojan War?
A) Odyssey
B) Iliad
C) Metamorphoses
D) Aeneid
- 51. What is the name of the ship in Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Pequod
B) Nautilus
C) Bounty
D) Endeavour
- 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 Giver
C) Divergent
D) The Maze Runner
- 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) Emily Dickinson
B) Langston Hughes
C) Robert Frost
D) Sylvia Plath
- 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) Arthur Miller
D) Eugene O'Neill
- 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) Homer
B) Virgil
C) Milton
D) Dante
- 59. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
A) James Joyce
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Franz Kafka
D) Joseph Conrad
- 60. Who wrote the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Arthur Miller
C) Lorraine Hansberry
D) Samuel Beckett
- 61. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
A) The Undying Creature
B) Victor's Creation
C) The Modern Prometheus
D) Monster's Legacy
- 62. Which author created the detective character Sherlock Holmes?
A) Raymond Chandler
B) Agatha Christie
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Arthur Conan Doyle
- 63. Who is the protagonist in J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Atticus Finch
B) Scout Finch
C) Holden Caulfield
D) Jay Gatsby
- 64. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Anna Akhmatova
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) Anton Chekhov
- 65. What is the primary setting of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) Chicago, Illinois
C) New York City, New York
D) Maycomb, Alabama
- 66. Who is the author of the children's book 'Charlotte's Web'?
A) Margaret Wise Brown
B) Dr. Seuss
C) E.B. White
D) P.D. Eastman
- 67. In 'Romeo and Juliet', what family does Juliet belong to?
A) Verona
B) Thorn
C) Montague
D) Capulet
- 68. In 'The Great Gatsby', what is Jay Gatsby's real name?
A) James Gatz
B) John Wilson
C) Tom Carraway
D) George Buchanon
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