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