- 1. Literature encompasses written works that express ideas, emotions, and experiences through language. It serves as a reflection of society, culture, and human nature, providing insights into the human condition. Through various genres such as poetry, prose, drama, and fiction, literature allows individuals to explore different perspectives, challenge their beliefs, and understand the complexities of the world. It has the power to evoke empathy, provoke thought, and inspire change. Literature captures the beauty of language, the depth of emotions, and the richness of imagination, making it a timeless and invaluable aspect of human expression.
Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Mark Twain
C) Jane Austen
D) Emily Brontë
- 2. Which Shakespeare play features the line 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'?
A) Macbeth
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) Hamlet
D) Othello
- 3. Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) John Steinbeck
- 4. What is the setting of 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville?
A) Medieval castle
B) Whaling ship
C) Space station
D) Western town
- 5. Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Robert Frost
D) Sylvia Plath
- 6. Which dystopian novel features a society divided into districts controlled by the Capitol?
A) Brave New World
B) The Hunger Games
C) 1984
D) Fahrenheit 451
- 7. What is the title of the novel that follows the life of Huckleberry Finn?
A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
B) Oliver Twist
C) Treasure Island
D) Robinson Crusoe
- 8. Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) William Shakespeare
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Anton Chekhov
- 9. Which author wrote 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) Lewis Carroll
B) C.S. Lewis
C) Roald Dahl
D) J.K. Rowling
- 10. Who is the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Harper Lee
C) Emily Brontë
D) John Steinbeck
- 11. Which Russian author wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) Nikolai Gogol
- 12. What is the title of the famous poem by Robert Frost that begins with 'Whose woods these are I think I know'?
A) The Road Not Taken
B) Acquainted with the Night
C) Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
D) Fire and Ice
- 13. Which classic novel features the characters Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy?
A) Jane Eyre
B) Great Expectations
C) Pride and Prejudice
D) Wuthering Heights
- 14. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) Homer
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) John Milton
D) Dante Alighieri
- 15. The novel 'Frankenstein' was written by which author?
A) Bram Stoker
B) Jules Verne
C) Mary Shelley
D) H.G. Wells
- 16. What is the final book in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series?
A) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
B) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
C) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
D) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- 17. Who is the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) Sylvia Plath
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Ernest Hemingway
- 18. Which Shakespeare play features the characters Rosalind and Orlando?
A) A Midsummer Night's Dream
B) The Merchant of Venice
C) As You Like It
D) Twelfth Night
- 19. Who wrote the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Charlotte Brontë
- 20. What is the title of the dystopian novel that portrays a society where books are banned?
A) Lord of the Flies
B) Fahrenheit 451
C) Animal Farm
D) Brave New World
- 21. Which American poet penned the line 'I sing the body electric'?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Robert Frost
D) Langston Hughes
- 22. Who is the author of 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy?
A) C.S. Lewis
B) J.R.R. Tolkien
C) George R.R. Martin
D) Philip K. Dick
- 23. The novel 'Wuthering Heights' was written by which author?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Emily Brontë
C) Jane Austen
D) George Eliot
- 24. Who is the author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Jorge Luis Borges
C) Pablo Neruda
D) Isabel Allende
- 25. What is the title of the novel about the adventures of a young orphaned girl written by Lucy Maud Montgomery?
A) Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
B) Little Women
C) Anne of Green Gables
D) Heidi
- 26. In the novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo', who is the main character seeking revenge?
A) Captain Ahab
B) Edmond Dantès
C) Dr. Jekyll
D) Jean Valjean
- 27. Who is the author of 'The War of the Worlds'?
A) Jules Verne
B) Arthur C. Clarke
C) H.G. Wells
D) Philip K. Dick
- 28. Which author wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) John Milton
B) Aldous Huxley
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Emily Bronte
- 29. In 'Lord of the Flies', who is the leader of the boys stranded on the deserted island?
A) Ralph
B) Simon
C) Jack
D) Piggy
- 30. In which novel does the character Scarlett O'Hara appear?
A) Gone with the Wind
B) Jane Eyre
C) Little Women
D) Pride and Prejudice
- 31. Who is the author of 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Herman Melville
D) Herman Hesse
- 32. Which dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley envisions a future society where emotions are controlled and individuality is suppressed?
A) Brave New World
B) 1984
C) The Handmaid's Tale
D) Fahrenheit 451
- 33. Which Charles Dickens novel features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
A) A Christmas Carol
B) David Copperfield
C) Great Expectations
D) Oliver Twist
- 34. What is the last name of the sisters in Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women'?
A) Johnson
B) March
C) Smith
D) Jones
- 35. Which novel follows the story of Jean Valjean?
A) Great Expectations
B) Les Misérables
C) Crime and Punishment
D) Anna Karenina
- 36. Which dystopian novel by George Orwell explores themes of government surveillance and totalitarianism?
A) Brave New World
B) 1984
C) The Handmaid's Tale
D) Fahrenheit 451
- 37. What is the pseudonym of the author Samuel Clemens?
A) Herman Melville
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Mark Twain
- 38. Who wrote the book '1984'?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Ray Bradbury
C) George Orwell
D) Aldous Huxley
- 39. Who is the author of 'The Call of the Wild'?
A) Stephen Crane
B) Edgar Rice Burroughs
C) Jack London
D) Herman Melville
- 40. In 'The Great Gatsby', who is the narrator of the story?
A) Jay Gatsby
B) Daisy Buchanan
C) Nick Carraway
D) Tom Buchanan
- 41. What literary device is often described as 'the way a story is told'?
A) Theme
B) Simile
C) Narrative
D) Metaphor
- 42. Who is the author of the novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Émile Zola
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Alexandre Dumas
- 43. Which classic novel follows the lives of the March sisters and is written by Louisa May Alcott?
A) Wuthering Heights
B) Jane Eyre
C) Little Women
D) Sense and Sensibility
- 44. Which Shakespeare play is known as the 'Scottish play'?
A) Romeo and Juliet
B) Othello
C) Macbeth
D) Hamlet
- 45. In 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', who is the King of the Fairies?
A) Demetrius
B) Titania
C) Puck
D) Oberon
- 46. Which novel features the character Holden Caulfield?
A) Brave New World
B) The Great Gatsby
C) Lord of the Flies
D) The Catcher in the Rye
- 47. Which author is known for the 'Hunger Games' trilogy?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) Veronica Roth
C) George R.R. Martin
D) Suzanne Collins
- 48. Who wrote the play 'A Doll's House'?
A) Henrik Ibsen
B) Anton Chekhov
C) August Strindberg
D) Eugene O'Neill
- 49. Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Herman Melville
- 50. Which Greek epic poem is attributed to Homer and tells the story of the Trojan War?
A) Odyssey
B) Metamorphoses
C) Iliad
D) Aeneid
- 51. What is the name of the ship in Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Endeavour
B) Nautilus
C) Bounty
D) Pequod
- 52. What is the title of the novel about a dystopian future society divided into factions based on virtues?
A) Divergent
B) Ready Player One
C) The Maze Runner
D) The Giver
- 53. What is the title of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald set during the Roaring Twenties?
A) Tender Is the Night
B) The Great Gatsby
C) This Side of Paradise
D) The Beautiful and Damned
- 54. 'The Road Not Taken' is a poem by which poet?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Robert Frost
D) Langston Hughes
- 55. Who wrote the epic poem 'The Iliad'?
A) Ovid
B) Virgil
C) Apollonius of Rhodes
D) Homer
- 56. Who wrote the play 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Eugene O'Neill
C) Arthur Miller
D) Harold Pinter
- 57. Which Nobel Prize-winning author wrote 'Beloved' and 'Song of Solomon'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Alice Walker
D) Maya Angelou
- 58. In 'The Divine Comedy', what is the name of the main character who journeys through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven?
A) Virgil
B) Milton
C) Dante
D) Homer
- 59. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
A) James Joyce
B) Joseph Conrad
C) Franz Kafka
D) Ernest Hemingway
- 60. Who wrote the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
A) Lorraine Hansberry
B) Arthur Miller
C) Samuel Beckett
D) Tennessee Williams
- 61. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
A) Monster's Legacy
B) The Modern Prometheus
C) Victor's Creation
D) The Undying Creature
- 62. Which author created the detective character Sherlock Holmes?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Agatha Christie
D) Raymond Chandler
- 63. Who is the protagonist in J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Atticus Finch
B) Holden Caulfield
C) Jay Gatsby
D) Scout Finch
- 64. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Anna Akhmatova
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 65. What is the primary setting of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) Maycomb, Alabama
C) Chicago, Illinois
D) New York City, New York
- 66. Who is the author of the children's book 'Charlotte's Web'?
A) Margaret Wise Brown
B) P.D. Eastman
C) Dr. Seuss
D) E.B. White
- 67. In 'Romeo and Juliet', what family does Juliet belong to?
A) Montague
B) Verona
C) Capulet
D) Thorn
- 68. In 'The Great Gatsby', what is Jay Gatsby's real name?
A) John Wilson
B) James Gatz
C) Tom Carraway
D) George Buchanon
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