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  • 1. English literature is a vast and rich tradition that spans centuries and includes a wide range of genres, styles, and voices. From the epic poems of Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales to the plays of William Shakespeare and the novels of Jane Austen, English literature offers a window into the cultural, social, and political history of England and the world. Its diverse and enduring works explore themes of love, betrayal, heroism, identity, and more, resonating with readers across time and place. Whether delving into the lyrical beauty of Romantic poetry or the dark depths of modernist fiction, English literature continues to captivate and inspire readers of all ages.

    Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) George Orwell
B) Jane Austen
C) Charles Dickens
D) Emily Brontë
  • 2. Which Brontë sister wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Elizabeth Gaskell
B) Anne Brontë
C) Emily Brontë
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 3. What is the poetic form consisting of fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme called?
A) Haiku
B) Sonnet
C) Epic
D) Limerick
  • 4. Who is the author of the play 'Macbeth'?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Christopher Marlowe
C) Oscar Wilde
D) George Bernard Shaw
  • 5. Which of the following is not a Shakespearean comedy?
A) The Taming of the Shrew
B) Hamlet
C) A Midsummer Night's Dream
D) Twelfth Night
  • 6. Who wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Mark Twain
C) Charles Dickens
D) Thomas Hardy
  • 7. In which novel would you find the characters Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim?
A) Wuthering Heights
B) Oliver Twist
C) A Christmas Carol
D) Moby-Dick
  • 8. Which novel features the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D) Lord of the Flies
  • 9. Who is the author of the novel '1984'?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) Aldous Huxley
C) J.D. Salinger
D) George Orwell
  • 10. What is the full title of the famous novel 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Moby-Dick; or, The Shark
B) Moby-Dick; or, The Fish
C) Moby-Dick; or, The Octopus
D) Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
  • 11. Who wrote the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
A) Henrik Ibsen
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Arthur Miller
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 12. What is the sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) The Wizard of Oz
B) The Wind in the Willows
C) Through the Looking-Glass
D) Peter Pan
  • 13. Which author wrote the novel 'Lord of the Flies'?
A) William Golding
B) Philip Pullman
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) C.S. Lewis
  • 14. Who is the author of the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Charles Dickens
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 15. Who wrote the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Harper Lee
C) J.D. Salinger
D) John Steinbeck
  • 16. Which character narrates 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Jay Gatsby
B) Scout Finch
C) Atticus Finch
D) Holden Caulfield
  • 17. What is the full title of the novel commonly known as 'Frankenstein'?
A) Frankenstein; or, The Creation
B) Frankenstein; or, The Experiment
C) Frankenstein; or, The Monster
D) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
  • 18. In 'The Great Gatsby', where does Jay Gatsby live?
A) West Egg
B) Manhattan
C) East Egg
D) Long Island
  • 19. Which classic novel is based on the experiences of the March sisters?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Jane Eyre
C) Sense and Sensibility
D) Little Women
  • 20. Who wrote the novel 'Dracula'?
A) Bram Stoker
B) Mary Shelley
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) H.P. Lovecraft
  • 21. Which literary character is known for his famous pipe and deerstalker hat?
A) Dr. Jekyll
B) Sherlock Holmes
C) Miss Marple
D) Hercule Poirot
  • 22. Who wrote the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Albert Camus
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Voltaire
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 23. What is the opening line of Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
A) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
B) Happy families are all alike
C) Call me Ishmael
D) In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
  • 24. Who is the protagonist of 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy?
A) Bilbo Baggins
B) Gandalf
C) Aragorn
D) Frodo Baggins
  • 25. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
A) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
B) The Modern Prometheus
C) The Man Who Was Thursday
D) The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • 26. Which novel is considered a satire of Stalinism and the Soviet Union?
A) Animal Farm
B) Brave New World
C) Fahrenheit 451
D) 1984
  • 27. Who is the author of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series?
A) Philip Pullman
B) C.S. Lewis
C) Roald Dahl
D) J.K. Rowling
  • 28. Who wrote the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) William Wordsworth
C) Robert Frost
D) Langston Hughes
  • 29. Which novel starts with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) To Kill a Mockingbird
B) The Great Gatsby
C) Moby Dick
D) 1984
  • 30. Who is the protagonist in George Orwell's novel '1984'?
A) John Proctor
B) Holden Caulfield
C) Winston Smith
D) Atticus Finch
  • 31. Which author wrote the novel 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) J.D. Salinger
C) Harper Lee
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 32. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C) John Milton
D) William Blake
  • 33. In which novel do we follow the adventures of the young wizard Harry Potter?
A) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
B) Twilight
C) The Hunger Games
D) Divergent
  • 34. Who wrote the novel 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Harper Lee
C) Herman Melville
D) J.K. Rowling
  • 35. Which novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald features the character Jay Gatsby?
A) The Beautiful and Damned
B) Tender is the Night
C) The Great Gatsby
D) This Side of Paradise
  • 36. Who wrote the play 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Arthur Miller
B) August Wilson
C) Eugene O'Neill
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 37. Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
A) John Milton
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Emily Bronte
D) Walt Whitman
  • 38. In 'The Great Gatsby', what symbolizes the American Dream?
A) Silver key
B) Golden coin
C) Red rose
D) Green light
  • 39. Which author wrote 'Moby Dick'?
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson
B) Henry David Thoreau
C) Herman Melville
D) Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 40. Who wrote the novel 'Little Women'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Jane Austen
C) Louisa May Alcott
D) Charlotte Bronte
  • 41. Who wrote the satire 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) Henry Fielding
B) Daniel Defoe
C) Jonathan Swift
D) Samuel Richardson
  • 42. Which author is known for writing 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
A) Aeschylus
B) Homer
C) Euripides
D) Sophocles
  • 43. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', who is the protagonist?
A) Scout Finch
B) Boo Radley
C) Tom Robinson
D) Atticus Finch
  • 44. What is the title of Harper Lee's second novel, published in 2015?
A) Go Set a Watchman
B) Mockingjay
C) Brave New World
D) To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 45. Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Mary Shelley
C) Bram Stoker
D) H.P. Lovecraft
  • 46. Which author is famous for writing 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Joseph Conrad
C) John Milton
D) Homer
  • 47. In which country was author Oscar Wilde born?
A) Ireland
B) England
C) Italy
D) France
  • 48. Who is the author of 'Les Misérables'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Albert Camus
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Alexandre Dumas
  • 49. What is the title of the first Sherlock Holmes novel?
A) The Hound of the Baskervilles
B) The Sign of the Four
C) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
D) A Study in Scarlet
  • 50. In 'The Great Gatsby', what is the real name of the character Jay Gatsby?
A) Nick Carraway
B) Tom Buchanan
C) John Green
D) James Gatz
  • 51. Who is the author of the novel 'Brave New World'?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) George Orwell
C) Aldous Huxley
D) Philip K. Dick
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