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  • 1. World literature refers to literature from all around the globe, encompassing works written in various languages, cultures, and historical periods. It reflects the diversity of human experience and offers insights into different societies, perspectives, and traditions. World literature bridges the gap between cultures and allows us to explore universal themes such as love, war, identity, and human nature. Through the power of storytelling, world literature nurtures empathy, fosters understanding, and promotes intercultural dialogue. It has the ability to transcend borders and connect people from different corners of the world through shared stories and shared humanity.

    Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A) Jane Austen
B) Charles Dickens
C) William Shakespeare
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 2. Which ancient poet wrote 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
A) Homer
B) Sappho
C) Ovid
D) Virgil
  • 3. Who is the author of the novel 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B) Franz Kafka
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 4. Which author wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) Harper Lee
C) Mark Twain
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 5. Who is the writer of 'The Divine Comedy'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Miguel de Cervantes
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
  • 6. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 7. Which Greek philosopher wrote 'The Republic'?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Epicurus
  • 8. Who is the author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Oscar Wilde
B) Joseph Conrad
C) Thomas Hardy
D) Emily Bronte
  • 9. Which author wrote 'Don Quixote'?
A) Tolstoy
B) Gustave Flaubert
C) Miguel de Cervantes
D) Victor Hugo
  • 10. Who wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'?
A) Herman Melville
B) William Faulkner
C) Thomas Hardy
D) Charles Dickens
  • 11. Which American author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) J.D. Salinger
C) John Steinbeck
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 12. Who authored the novel 'Les Misérables'?
A) Charles Baudelaire
B) Gustave Flaubert
C) Alexandre Dumas
D) Victor Hugo
  • 13. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
A) Henry James
B) H.G. Wells
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Joseph Conrad
  • 14. Who is the author of 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) John Keats
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Milton
  • 15. Which author wrote 'The Metamorphosis'?
A) Thomas Mann
B) Franz Kafka
C) Hermann Hesse
D) Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 16. Which Brazilian author wrote 'The Alchemist'?
A) Paulo Coelho
B) Clarice Lispector
C) Jorge Amado
D) Machado de Assis
  • 17. Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
A) William Faulkner
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) John Steinbeck
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 18. Which author wrote 'The Stranger'?
A) Franz Kafka
B) Albert Camus
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Hermann Hesse
  • 19. Who is the author of 'Mrs Dalloway'?
A) George Orwell
B) D.H. Lawrence
C) E.M. Forster
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 20. Which Chinese author wrote 'Dream of the Red Chamber'?
A) Yu Hua
B) Lu Xun
C) Mo Yan
D) Cao Xueqin
  • 21. Who wrote 'Madame Bovary'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Émile Zola
  • 22. Which American novelist wrote 'Beloved'?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Maya Angelou
C) Toni Morrison
D) Alice Walker
  • 23. Who wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Emily Brontë
C) Anne Brontë
D) George Eliot
  • 24. Which novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family in the town of Macondo?
A) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
B) The Autumn of the Patriarch
C) One Hundred Years of Solitude
D) Love in the Time of Cholera
  • 25. Who is the author of the novel 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'?
A) Ivan Turgenev
B) Vladimir Nabokov
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • 26. Who is the author of 'Invisible Man'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Ralph Ellison
C) Richard Wright
D) James Baldwin
  • 27. Who wrote the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Harper Lee
  • 28. What novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering?
A) The Brothers Karamazov
B) Crime and Punishment
C) The Idiot
D) Notes from Underground
  • 29. Which author wrote the satirical novel 'Candide'?
A) Voltaire
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Ralph Ellison
D) Jules Verne
  • 30. Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?
A) Margaret Atwood
B) Haruki Murakami
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 31. Who is the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?
A) Émile Zola
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Victor Hugo
  • 32. Which Greek tragedian wrote 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'?
A) Herodotus
B) Sophocles
C) Aeschylus
D) Euripides
  • 33. Which author is known for writing 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) John Steinbeck
C) William Faulkner
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 34. Which author is famous for 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series?
A) Douglas Adams
B) Terry Pratchett
C) Philip K. Dick
D) J.R.R. Tolkien
  • 35. Who is the author of 'Things Fall Apart'?
A) Wole Soyinka
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Nadine Gordimer
D) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  • 36. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) Andrew Marvell
B) John Milton
C) Alexander Pope
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 37. Which Japanese author wrote 'Norwegian Wood'?
A) Haruki Murakami
B) Natsume Sōseki
C) Ryunosuke Akutagawa
D) Yukio Mishima
  • 38. Which Irish author wrote 'Ulysses'?
A) James Joyce
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Samuel Beckett
  • 39. Who wrote 'The Road'?
A) Cormac McCarthy
B) David Foster Wallace
C) Don DeLillo
D) Thomas Pynchon
  • 40. Which Nobel Laureate from Egypt wrote 'Palace Walk'?
A) Tawfiq al-Hakim
B) Radwa Ashour
C) Salwa Bakr
D) Naguib Mahfouz
  • 41. Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Emily Bronte
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Jane Austen
D) Charlotte Bronte
  • 42. Which novel by Albert Camus explores the philosophy of the absurd?
A) The Plague
B) The Fall
C) The Myth of Sisyphus
D) The Stranger
  • 43. Who wrote the novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Herman Melville
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 44. Who wrote the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Anne Brontë
C) George Eliot
D) Emily Brontë
  • 45. Who wrote the poem 'The Waste Land'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) William Butler Yeats
C) Ezra Pound
D) T.S. Eliot
  • 46. Which Mexican author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990?
A) Octavio Paz
B) Laura Esquivel
C) Carlos Fuentes
D) Julio Cortazar
  • 47. Which novel by Chinua Achebe chronicles pre-colonial life in Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans?
A) Anthills of the Savannah
B) Things Fall Apart
C) No Longer at Ease
D) Arrow of God
  • 48. Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for 'Midnight's Children'?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Jhumpa Lahiri
C) Vikram Seth
D) Arundhati Roy
  • 49. Who is the author of the play 'A Doll's House'?
A) Henrik Ibsen
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) Anton Chekhov
D) August Strindberg
  • 50. Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
A) Oliver Twist
B) Great Expectations
C) Bleak House
D) A Christmas Carol
  • 51. 'The Book Thief' is a novel by which Australian author?
A) Christos Tsiolkas
B) Tim Winton
C) Liane Moriarty
D) Markus Zusak
  • 52. Who is the author of the novel '1984'?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) Aldous Huxley
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) George Orwell
  • 53. Which novel by Victor Hugo features the character Jean Valjean?
A) Les Misérables
B) The Man Who Laughs
C) Toilers of the Sea
D) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  • 54. Which American novel begins with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) Moby-Dick
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) The Catcher in the Rye
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 55. Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Nikolai Gogol
D) Anton Chekhov
  • 56. Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) Aldous Huxley
C) Philip K. Dick
D) George Orwell
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