World literature
  • 1. World literature refers to literature from all around the globe, encompassing works written in various languages, cultures, and historical periods. It reflects the diversity of human experience and offers insights into different societies, perspectives, and traditions. World literature bridges the gap between cultures and allows us to explore universal themes such as love, war, identity, and human nature. Through the power of storytelling, world literature nurtures empathy, fosters understanding, and promotes intercultural dialogue. It has the ability to transcend borders and connect people from different corners of the world through shared stories and shared humanity.

    Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Charles Dickens
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Jane Austen
  • 2. Which ancient poet wrote 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
A) Sappho
B) Ovid
C) Homer
D) Virgil
  • 3. Who is the author of the novel 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B) Franz Kafka
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 4. Which author wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Harper Lee
B) J.K. Rowling
C) Mark Twain
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 5. Who is the writer of 'The Divine Comedy'?
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Miguel de Cervantes
D) Herman Melville
  • 6. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 7. Which Greek philosopher wrote 'The Republic'?
A) Aristotle
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Epicurus
  • 8. Who is the author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Oscar Wilde
B) Emily Bronte
C) Joseph Conrad
D) Thomas Hardy
  • 9. Which author wrote 'Don Quixote'?
A) Tolstoy
B) Miguel de Cervantes
C) Victor Hugo
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 10. Who wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'?
A) William Faulkner
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Herman Melville
D) Charles Dickens
  • 11. Which American author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 12. Who authored the novel 'Les Misérables'?
A) Alexandre Dumas
B) Gustave Flaubert
C) Victor Hugo
D) Charles Baudelaire
  • 13. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
A) Joseph Conrad
B) H.G. Wells
C) Henry James
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 14. Who is the author of 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) John Milton
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Keats
  • 15. Which author wrote 'The Metamorphosis'?
A) Hermann Hesse
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Franz Kafka
D) Thomas Mann
  • 16. Which Brazilian author wrote 'The Alchemist'?
A) Jorge Amado
B) Paulo Coelho
C) Clarice Lispector
D) Machado de Assis
  • 17. Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
A) William Faulkner
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) John Steinbeck
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 18. Which author wrote 'The Stranger'?
A) Albert Camus
B) Franz Kafka
C) Hermann Hesse
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 19. Who is the author of 'Mrs Dalloway'?
A) E.M. Forster
B) George Orwell
C) D.H. Lawrence
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 20. Which Chinese author wrote 'Dream of the Red Chamber'?
A) Mo Yan
B) Lu Xun
C) Cao Xueqin
D) Yu Hua
  • 21. Who wrote 'Madame Bovary'?
A) Charles Baudelaire
B) Victor Hugo
C) Émile Zola
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 22. Which American novelist wrote 'Beloved'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Maya Angelou
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Alice Walker
  • 23. Who is the author of 'Things Fall Apart'?
A) Nadine Gordimer
B) Wole Soyinka
C) Chinua Achebe
D) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  • 24. Who wrote 'The Road'?
A) Cormac McCarthy
B) Thomas Pynchon
C) Don DeLillo
D) David Foster Wallace
  • 25. Which novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family in the town of Macondo?
A) Love in the Time of Cholera
B) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
C) One Hundred Years of Solitude
D) The Autumn of the Patriarch
  • 26. Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Emily Bronte
B) Charlotte Bronte
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Jane Austen
  • 27. What novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering?
A) The Brothers Karamazov
B) Crime and Punishment
C) Notes from Underground
D) The Idiot
  • 28. Who is the author of the novel '1984'?
A) George Orwell
B) J.R.R. Tolkien
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Aldous Huxley
  • 29. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) John Milton
B) Andrew Marvell
C) Alexander Pope
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 30. Who is the author of the play 'A Doll's House'?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Henrik Ibsen
C) August Strindberg
D) Anton Chekhov
  • 31. Which Greek tragedian wrote 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'?
A) Sophocles
B) Euripides
C) Herodotus
D) Aeschylus
  • 32. Who wrote the novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Herman Melville
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Henry David Thoreau
  • 33. Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?
A) Kazuo Ishiguro
B) Haruki Murakami
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Margaret Atwood
  • 34. Which novel by Chinua Achebe chronicles pre-colonial life in Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans?
A) Arrow of God
B) Things Fall Apart
C) No Longer at Ease
D) Anthills of the Savannah
  • 35. Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Nikolai Gogol
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Anton Chekhov
  • 36. Who is the author of the novel 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'?
A) Ivan Turgenev
B) Boris Pasternak
C) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
D) Vladimir Nabokov
  • 37. Which novel by Albert Camus explores the philosophy of the absurd?
A) The Fall
B) The Plague
C) The Myth of Sisyphus
D) The Stranger
  • 38. Which author is famous for 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series?
A) J.R.R. Tolkien
B) Terry Pratchett
C) Philip K. Dick
D) Douglas Adams
  • 39. Who wrote the poem 'The Waste Land'?
A) T.S. Eliot
B) Ezra Pound
C) William Butler Yeats
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 40. Which Mexican author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990?
A) Laura Esquivel
B) Octavio Paz
C) Carlos Fuentes
D) Julio Cortazar
  • 41. Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
A) Great Expectations
B) Oliver Twist
C) Bleak House
D) A Christmas Carol
  • 42. Which novel by Victor Hugo features the character Jean Valjean?
A) Les Misérables
B) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
C) The Man Who Laughs
D) Toilers of the Sea
  • 43. 'The Book Thief' is a novel by which Australian author?
A) Christos Tsiolkas
B) Tim Winton
C) Markus Zusak
D) Liane Moriarty
  • 44. Which American novel begins with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) The Catcher in the Rye
D) Moby-Dick
  • 45. Who wrote the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) George Eliot
B) Charlotte Brontë
C) Anne Brontë
D) Emily Brontë
  • 46. Which Nobel Laureate from Egypt wrote 'Palace Walk'?
A) Radwa Ashour
B) Salwa Bakr
C) Naguib Mahfouz
D) Tawfiq al-Hakim
  • 47. Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for 'Midnight's Children'?
A) Arundhati Roy
B) Jhumpa Lahiri
C) Vikram Seth
D) Salman Rushdie
  • 48. Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?
A) Philip K. Dick
B) George Orwell
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Aldous Huxley
  • 49. Who is the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?
A) Émile Zola
B) Victor Hugo
C) Alexandre Dumas
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 50. Which Japanese author wrote 'Norwegian Wood'?
A) Natsume Sōseki
B) Ryunosuke Akutagawa
C) Yukio Mishima
D) Haruki Murakami
  • 51. Who wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Anne Brontë
C) Emily Brontë
D) George Eliot
  • 52. Who is the author of 'Invisible Man'?
A) Richard Wright
B) James Baldwin
C) Toni Morrison
D) Ralph Ellison
  • 53. Which Irish author wrote 'Ulysses'?
A) James Joyce
B) Samuel Beckett
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 54. Who wrote the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Harper Lee
C) Charles Dickens
D) Gabriel García Márquez
  • 55. Which author wrote the satirical novel 'Candide'?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Jules Verne
C) Voltaire
D) Ralph Ellison
  • 56. Which author is known for writing 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) John Steinbeck
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) William Faulkner
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