English literature
  • 1. English literature is a vast and rich tradition that spans centuries and includes a wide range of genres, styles, and voices. From the epic poems of Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales to the plays of William Shakespeare and the novels of Jane Austen, English literature offers a window into the cultural, social, and political history of England and the world. Its diverse and enduring works explore themes of love, betrayal, heroism, identity, and more, resonating with readers across time and place. Whether delving into the lyrical beauty of Romantic poetry or the dark depths of modernist fiction, English literature continues to captivate and inspire readers of all ages.

    Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Jane Austen
C) Emily Brontë
D) George Orwell
  • 2. Which Brontë sister wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Elizabeth Gaskell
B) Emily Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Anne Brontë
  • 3. What is the poetic form consisting of fourteen lines with a specific rhyme scheme called?
A) Sonnet
B) Epic
C) Haiku
D) Limerick
  • 4. Who is the author of the play 'Macbeth'?
A) Christopher Marlowe
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) William Shakespeare
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 5. Which of the following is not a Shakespearean comedy?
A) A Midsummer Night's Dream
B) Twelfth Night
C) Hamlet
D) The Taming of the Shrew
  • 6. Who wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Mark Twain
  • 7. In which novel would you find the characters Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim?
A) A Christmas Carol
B) Moby-Dick
C) Wuthering Heights
D) Oliver Twist
  • 8. Which novel features the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C) Lord of the Flies
D) To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 9. Who is the author of the novel '1984'?
A) George Orwell
B) Aldous Huxley
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 10. What is the full title of the famous novel 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Moby-Dick; or, The Octopus
B) Moby-Dick; or, The Shark
C) Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
D) Moby-Dick; or, The Fish
  • 11. Who wrote the play 'A Streetcar Named Desire'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Tennessee Williams
C) Henrik Ibsen
D) Arthur Miller
  • 12. What is the sequel to 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) The Wizard of Oz
B) The Wind in the Willows
C) Through the Looking-Glass
D) Peter Pan
  • 13. Which author wrote the novel 'Lord of the Flies'?
A) Philip Pullman
B) C.S. Lewis
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) William Golding
  • 14. Who is the author of the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Emily Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Charles Dickens
  • 15. Who wrote the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Harper Lee
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) J.D. Salinger
D) John Steinbeck
  • 16. Which character narrates 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Atticus Finch
B) Scout Finch
C) Jay Gatsby
D) Holden Caulfield
  • 17. What is the full title of the novel commonly known as 'Frankenstein'?
A) Frankenstein; or, The Monster
B) Frankenstein; or, The Experiment
C) Frankenstein; or, The Creation
D) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
  • 18. In 'The Great Gatsby', where does Jay Gatsby live?
A) West Egg
B) Manhattan
C) Long Island
D) East Egg
  • 19. Which classic novel is based on the experiences of the March sisters?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Sense and Sensibility
C) Jane Eyre
D) Little Women
  • 20. Who wrote the novel 'Dracula'?
A) H.P. Lovecraft
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Bram Stoker
D) Mary Shelley
  • 21. Which literary character is known for his famous pipe and deerstalker hat?
A) Dr. Jekyll
B) Hercule Poirot
C) Sherlock Holmes
D) Miss Marple
  • 22. Who wrote the novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Voltaire
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Albert Camus
  • 23. What is the opening line of Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
A) Happy families are all alike
B) Call me Ishmael
C) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times
D) In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
  • 24. Who is the protagonist of 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy?
A) Bilbo Baggins
B) Frodo Baggins
C) Gandalf
D) Aragorn
  • 25. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?
A) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
B) The Modern Prometheus
C) The Hound of the Baskervilles
D) The Man Who Was Thursday
  • 26. Which novel is considered a satire of Stalinism and the Soviet Union?
A) Fahrenheit 451
B) Brave New World
C) 1984
D) Animal Farm
  • 27. Who is the author of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series?
A) C.S. Lewis
B) Roald Dahl
C) Philip Pullman
D) J.K. Rowling
  • 28. Who wrote the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Robert Frost
C) William Wordsworth
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 29. Which novel starts with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) To Kill a Mockingbird
B) Moby Dick
C) 1984
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 30. Who is the protagonist in George Orwell's novel '1984'?
A) John Proctor
B) Winston Smith
C) Atticus Finch
D) Holden Caulfield
  • 31. Which author wrote the novel 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Harper Lee
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 32. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) John Milton
B) Percy Bysshe Shelley
C) William Blake
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 33. In which novel do we follow the adventures of the young wizard Harry Potter?
A) Twilight
B) The Hunger Games
C) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
D) Divergent
  • 34. Who wrote the novel 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Harper Lee
C) J.K. Rowling
D) John Steinbeck
  • 35. Which novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald features the character Jay Gatsby?
A) The Beautiful and Damned
B) The Great Gatsby
C) This Side of Paradise
D) Tender is the Night
  • 36. Who wrote the play 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Eugene O'Neill
B) August Wilson
C) Tennessee Williams
D) Arthur Miller
  • 37. Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Emily Bronte
B) John Milton
C) Walt Whitman
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 38. In 'The Great Gatsby', what symbolizes the American Dream?
A) Red rose
B) Golden coin
C) Green light
D) Silver key
  • 39. Which author wrote 'Moby Dick'?
A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Herman Melville
  • 40. Who wrote the novel 'Little Women'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Jane Austen
C) Charlotte Bronte
D) Louisa May Alcott
  • 41. Who wrote the satire 'Gulliver's Travels'?
A) Henry Fielding
B) Samuel Richardson
C) Daniel Defoe
D) Jonathan Swift
  • 42. Which author is known for writing 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
A) Sophocles
B) Euripides
C) Homer
D) Aeschylus
  • 43. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', who is the protagonist?
A) Atticus Finch
B) Boo Radley
C) Tom Robinson
D) Scout Finch
  • 44. What is the title of Harper Lee's second novel, published in 2015?
A) Mockingjay
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) Brave New World
D) Go Set a Watchman
  • 45. Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Mary Shelley
C) Bram Stoker
D) H.P. Lovecraft
  • 46. Which author is famous for writing 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) Homer
B) Joseph Conrad
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) John Milton
  • 47. In which country was author Oscar Wilde born?
A) England
B) Italy
C) France
D) Ireland
  • 48. Who is the author of 'Les Misérables'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Albert Camus
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 49. What is the title of the first Sherlock Holmes novel?
A) The Hound of the Baskervilles
B) The Sign of the Four
C) A Study in Scarlet
D) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • 50. In 'The Great Gatsby', what is the real name of the character Jay Gatsby?
A) John Green
B) James Gatz
C) Nick Carraway
D) Tom Buchanan
  • 51. Who is the author of the novel 'Brave New World'?
A) Philip K. Dick
B) Aldous Huxley
C) George Orwell
D) Ray Bradbury
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