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