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