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