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