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