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