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English literature
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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) Jane Austen
B) George Orwell
C) Charles Dickens
D) Emily Brontë
  • 2. Which Brontë sister wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Anne Brontë
B) Emily Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Elizabeth Gaskell
  • 3. What is the poetic form consisting of fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme called?
A) Haiku
B) Epic
C) Sonnet
D) Limerick
  • 4. Who is the author of the play 'Macbeth'?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Christopher Marlowe
C) William Shakespeare
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 5. Which of the following is not a Shakespearean comedy?
A) The Taming of the Shrew
B) Twelfth Night
C) A Midsummer Night's Dream
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) Wuthering Heights
B) Moby-Dick
C) A Christmas Carol
D) Oliver Twist
  • 8. Which novel features the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
A) To Kill a Mockingbird
B) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C) Lord of the Flies
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 9. Who is the author of the novel '1984'?
A) George Orwell
B) Ray Bradbury
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Aldous Huxley
  • 10. What is the full title of the famous novel 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
B) Moby-Dick; or, The Shark
C) Moby-Dick; or, The Fish
D) Moby-Dick; or, The Octopus
  • 11. Who wrote the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Tennessee Williams
C) Arthur Miller
D) Henrik Ibsen
  • 12. What is the sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) Through the Looking-Glass
B) The Wind in the Willows
C) The Wizard of Oz
D) Peter Pan
  • 13. Which author wrote the novel 'Lord of the Flies'?
A) C.S. Lewis
B) Philip Pullman
C) William Golding
D) J.R.R. Tolkien
  • 14. Who is the author of the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Charlotte Brontë
C) Charles Dickens
D) Emily Brontë
  • 15. Who wrote the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) John Steinbeck
D) Harper Lee
  • 16. Which character narrates 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Holden Caulfield
B) Jay Gatsby
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 Creation
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) Little Women
C) Jane Eyre
D) Sense and Sensibility
  • 20. Who wrote the novel 'Dracula'?
A) Mary Shelley
B) H.P. Lovecraft
C) Bram Stoker
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 21. Which literary character is known for his famous pipe and deerstalker hat?
A) Hercule Poirot
B) Miss Marple
C) Sherlock Holmes
D) Dr. Jekyll
  • 22. Who wrote the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Voltaire
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Albert Camus
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 23. What is the opening line of Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
A) In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
B) Happy families are all alike
C) Call me Ishmael
D) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
  • 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 Hound of the Baskervilles
D) The Man Who Was Thursday
  • 26. Which novel is considered a satire of Stalinism and the Soviet Union?
A) Brave New World
B) Animal Farm
C) Fahrenheit 451
D) 1984
  • 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) Langston Hughes
B) Robert Frost
C) William Wordsworth
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 29. Which novel starts with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) To Kill a Mockingbird
B) 1984
C) The Great Gatsby
D) Moby Dick
  • 30. Who is the protagonist in George Orwell's novel '1984'?
A) Holden Caulfield
B) Winston Smith
C) John Proctor
D) Atticus Finch
  • 31. Which author wrote the novel 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Harper Lee
  • 32. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) Percy Bysshe Shelley
B) John Milton
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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) The Hunger Games
C) Divergent
D) Twilight
  • 34. Who wrote the novel 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A) Herman Melville
B) J.K. Rowling
C) John Steinbeck
D) Harper Lee
  • 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) Eugene O'Neill
B) Tennessee Williams
C) August Wilson
D) Arthur Miller
  • 37. Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Emily Bronte
B) Walt Whitman
C) John Milton
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 38. In 'The Great Gatsby', what symbolizes the American Dream?
A) Golden coin
B) Red rose
C) Silver key
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) Jane Austen
B) Louisa May Alcott
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Charlotte Bronte
  • 41. Who wrote the satire 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) Jonathan Swift
B) Daniel Defoe
C) Henry Fielding
D) Samuel Richardson
  • 42. Which author is known for writing 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
A) Sophocles
B) Homer
C) Euripides
D) Aeschylus
  • 43. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', who is the protagonist?
A) Atticus Finch
B) Boo Radley
C) Scout Finch
D) Tom Robinson
  • 44. What is the title of Harper Lee's second novel, published in 2015?
A) Mockingjay
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) Go Set a Watchman
D) Brave New World
  • 45. Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Mary Shelley
C) H.P. Lovecraft
D) Bram Stoker
  • 46. Which author is famous for writing 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) John Milton
C) Homer
D) Joseph Conrad
  • 47. In which country was author Oscar Wilde born?
A) France
B) England
C) Ireland
D) Italy
  • 48. Who is the author of 'Les Misérables'?
A) Albert Camus
B) Victor Hugo
C) Alexandre Dumas
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 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) 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) Aldous Huxley
C) Philip K. Dick
D) George Orwell
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