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Classics
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  • 1. Classics refers to the study of literature, art, history, philosophy, and other cultural works of ancient Greece and Rome. It involves the exploration and interpretation of texts and artifacts that have withstood the test of time and continue to influence modern society. Studying classics allows us to gain insight into the foundations of Western civilization, appreciate the beauty and complexity of ancient languages and cultures, and understand the enduring legacy of ideas that have shaped the world we live in today.

    Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Emily Brontë
C) Jane Austen
D) Agatha Christie
  • 2. What is the setting of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) London
B) Paris
C) New York City
D) Long Island
  • 3. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Nikolai Gogol
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 4. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', who is the protagonist?
A) Atticus Finch
B) Boo Radley
C) Jem Finch
D) Scout Finch
  • 5. Who is the author of '1984'?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) George Orwell
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Philip K. Dick
  • 6. Which Greek philosopher wrote 'The Republic'?
A) Plato
B) Socrates
C) Aristotle
D) Heraclitus
  • 7. Who wrote 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) C.S. Lewis
B) Roald Dahl
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) Lewis Carroll
  • 8. Who wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Jack Kerouac
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) J.D. Salinger
  • 9. Which author wrote 'Frankenstein'?
A) H.G. Wells
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Bram Stoker
D) Mary Shelley
  • 10. What is the subtitle of 'Don Quixote'?
A) The Knight Errant
B) Quixote's Tale
C) The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
D) The Quest for Glory
  • 11. Which novel features the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
A) The Call of the Wild
B) Swiss Family Robinson
C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D) Treasure Island
  • 12. In 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', who paints Dorian's portrait?
A) Lord Henry Wotton
B) Basil Hallward
C) Alan Campbell
D) Sibyl Vane
  • 13. Who is the author of 'The Odyssey'?
A) Virgil
B) Homer
C) Herodotus
D) Euripides
  • 14. What novel features the character Holden Caulfield?
A) Brave New World
B) Fahrenheit 451
C) The Catcher in the Rye
D) Lord of the Flies
  • 15. Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 16. In 'The Lord of the Rings', who is the main antagonist?
A) Gollum
B) Sauron
C) Saruman
D) The Witch-king
  • 17. Which character is the Little Women series centered around?
A) Beth March
B) Jo March
C) Meg March
D) Amy March
  • 18. Who wrote the play 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Arthur Miller
B) Eugene O'Neill
C) Tennessee Williams
D) Samuel Beckett
  • 19. Who wrote 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'?
A) Patricia Highsmith
B) Agatha Christie
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) Daphne du Maurier
  • 20. Which novel features the character Elizabeth Bennet?
A) Sense and Sensibility
B) Emma
C) Persuasion
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 21. Who is the author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Mario Vargas Llosa
B) Jorge Luis Borges
C) Gabriel García Márquez
D) Isabel Allende
  • 22. Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) John Donne
B) John Milton
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) William Wordsworth
  • 23. Which American author wrote 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Herman Melville
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 24. Which character famously shouts 'It's alive!' in 'Frankenstein'?
A) The Creature
B) Elizabeth Lavenza
C) Henry Clerval
D) Victor Frankenstein
  • 25. Who authored 'Great Expectations'?
A) Jane Austen
B) Emily Bronte
C) George Eliot
D) Charles Dickens
  • 26. In 'Les Misérables', who is the police inspector pursuing Jean Valjean?
A) Javert
B) Cosette
C) Marius
D) Fantine
  • 27. Who is the author of 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Emily Brontë
C) Jane Austen
D) Mary Shelley
  • 28. Who is the author of 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) John Steinbeck
C) William Faulkner
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 29. Which ancient author wrote 'The Histories'?
A) Plutarch
B) Herodotus
C) Homer
D) Thucydides
  • 30. Who is the protagonist in Homer's 'The Odyssey'?
A) Perseus
B) Orpheus
C) Achilles
D) Odysseus
  • 31. Which Roman poet wrote 'The Aeneid'?
A) Seneca
B) Virgil
C) Cicero
D) Ovid
  • 32. Who is the main character in George Orwell's novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'?
A) John Watson
B) Elizabeth Bennet
C) Atticus Finch
D) Winston Smith
  • 33. Who wrote 'Don Quixote'?
A) Miguel de Cervantes
B) Jorge Luis Borges
C) Pablo Neruda
D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • 34. In 'The Catcher in the Rye', what is the name of the protagonist?
A) Jay Gatsby
B) Raskolnikov
C) Atticus Finch
D) Holden Caulfield
  • 35. Who wrote the tragedy 'King Lear'?
A) Christopher Marlowe
B) Ben Jonson
C) Thomas Kyd
D) William Shakespeare
  • 36. Who wrote 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Mark Twain
C) Herman Melville
D) Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 37. Which ancient poet wrote 'The Metamorphoses'?
A) Virgil
B) Ovid
C) Homer
D) Seneca
  • 38. Who is the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Harper Lee
B) William Faulkner
C) Truman Capote
D) Toni Morrison
  • 39. Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?
A) Philip K. Dick
B) George Orwell
C) Aldous Huxley
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 40. In 'Gulliver's Travels', what is the name of the land where people are less than 6 inches tall?
A) Glubbdubdrib
B) Lilliput
C) Houyhnhnms
D) Brobdingnag
  • 41. Which character is the protagonist of 'Dracula'?
A) Jonathan Harker
B) Mina Harker
C) Van Helsing
D) Count Dracula
  • 42. Which classic novel is an allegory for the Russian Revolution?
A) Frankenstein
B) Lord of the Flies
C) War and Peace
D) Animal Farm
  • 43. Whose memoir is 'The Diary of a Young Girl'?
A) Elie Wiesel
B) Harriet Jacobs
C) Maya Angelou
D) Anne Frank
  • 44. 'The Scarlet Letter' is set in which American state?
A) Massachusetts
B) California
C) New York
D) Virginia
  • 45. In 'The Great Gatsby', who is the narrator?
A) Jay Gatsby
B) Nick Carraway
C) Tom Buchanan
D) Daisy Buchanan
  • 46. Who penned the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Walt Whitman
  • 47. Who is the author of 'Little Women'?
A) Agatha Christie
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Louisa May Alcott
  • 48. What is the title of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) Moby Dick
D) 1984
  • 49. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is a novel written by whom?
A) D.H. Lawrence
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Oscar Wilde
D) James Joyce
  • 50. Which ancient playwright wrote 'Medea'?
A) Euripides
B) Sophocles
C) Aristophanes
D) Aeschylus
  • 51. Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) William Faulkner
  • 52. What is the name of the fictional city in Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'?
A) Orwell
B) Wells
C) Montag
D) Huxley
  • 53. In 'The Odyssey', who is the wife of Odysseus?
A) Athena
B) Circe
C) Penelope
D) Helen
  • 54. Which novel tells the story of a whale hunt and the captain obsessed with revenge?
A) Moby Dick
B) Heart of Darkness
C) The Old Man and the Sea
D) Lord of the Flies
  • 55. Which novel features the character Jean Valjean?
A) Crime and Punishment
B) The Count of Monte Cristo
C) Anna Karenina
D) Les Misérables
  • 56. Who wrote the play 'Antigone'?
A) Plato
B) Euripides
C) Sophocles
D) Aeschylus
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