Classics
  • 1. Classics refers to the study of literature, art, history, philosophy, and other cultural works of ancient Greece and Rome. It involves the exploration and interpretation of texts and artifacts that have withstood the test of time and continue to influence modern society. Studying classics allows us to gain insight into the foundations of Western civilization, appreciate the beauty and complexity of ancient languages and cultures, and understand the enduring legacy of ideas that have shaped the world we live in today.

    Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Agatha Christie
D) Emily Brontë
  • 2. What is the setting of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) London
B) Long Island
C) New York City
D) Paris
  • 3. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Nikolai Gogol
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 4. In 'To Kill a Mockingbird', who is the protagonist?
A) Atticus Finch
B) Boo Radley
C) Scout Finch
D) Jem Finch
  • 5. Who is the author of '1984'?
A) George Orwell
B) Aldous Huxley
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Philip K. Dick
  • 6. Which Greek philosopher wrote 'The Republic'?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Heraclitus
D) Socrates
  • 7. Who wrote 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
A) J.R.R. Tolkien
B) Lewis Carroll
C) C.S. Lewis
D) Roald Dahl
  • 8. Who wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) J.D. Salinger
C) Jack Kerouac
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 9. Which author wrote 'Frankenstein'?
A) Bram Stoker
B) H.G. Wells
C) Mary Shelley
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 10. What is the subtitle of 'Don Quixote'?
A) The Quest for Glory
B) The Knight Errant
C) The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
D) Quixote's Tale
  • 11. Which novel features the characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?
A) The Call of the Wild
B) Swiss Family Robinson
C) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D) Treasure Island
  • 12. In 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', who paints Dorian's portrait?
A) Alan Campbell
B) Basil Hallward
C) Sibyl Vane
D) Lord Henry Wotton
  • 13. Who is the author of 'The Odyssey'?
A) Virgil
B) Euripides
C) Homer
D) Herodotus
  • 14. What novel features the character Holden Caulfield?
A) Brave New World
B) The Catcher in the Rye
C) Lord of the Flies
D) Fahrenheit 451
  • 15. Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 16. In 'The Lord of the Rings', who is the main antagonist?
A) Gollum
B) Saruman
C) The Witch-king
D) Sauron
  • 17. Which character is the Little Women series centered around?
A) Meg March
B) Jo March
C) Amy March
D) Beth March
  • 18. Who wrote the play 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Eugene O'Neill
B) Arthur Miller
C) Samuel Beckett
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 19. Who wrote 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'?
A) Patricia Highsmith
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Agatha Christie
D) Daphne du Maurier
  • 20. Which novel features the character Elizabeth Bennet?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) Sense and Sensibility
C) Persuasion
D) Emma
  • 21. Who is the author of 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Isabel Allende
C) Jorge Luis Borges
D) Mario Vargas Llosa
  • 22. Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) John Milton
B) John Donne
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) William Wordsworth
  • 23. In 'Les Misérables', who is the police inspector pursuing Jean Valjean?
A) Fantine
B) Cosette
C) Javert
D) Marius
  • 24. Which character is the protagonist of 'Dracula'?
A) Jonathan Harker
B) Count Dracula
C) Mina Harker
D) Van Helsing
  • 25. Who wrote the tragedy 'King Lear'?
A) Christopher Marlowe
B) Thomas Kyd
C) William Shakespeare
D) Ben Jonson
  • 26. Which Roman poet wrote 'The Aeneid'?
A) Cicero
B) Ovid
C) Seneca
D) Virgil
  • 27. In 'The Odyssey', who is the wife of Odysseus?
A) Athena
B) Helen
C) Penelope
D) Circe
  • 28. Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) William Faulkner
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 29. Who wrote the play 'Antigone'?
A) Plato
B) Sophocles
C) Aeschylus
D) Euripides
  • 30. What is the name of the fictional city in Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451'?
A) Orwell
B) Huxley
C) Wells
D) Montag
  • 31. 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' is a novel written by whom?
A) James Joyce
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Oscar Wilde
D) D.H. Lawrence
  • 32. Who wrote 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Herman Melville
D) Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 33. Which ancient poet wrote 'The Metamorphoses'?
A) Homer
B) Ovid
C) Virgil
D) Seneca
  • 34. In 'The Catcher in the Rye', what is the name of the protagonist?
A) Holden Caulfield
B) Jay Gatsby
C) Atticus Finch
D) Raskolnikov
  • 35. Who authored 'Great Expectations'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) George Eliot
C) Emily Bronte
D) Jane Austen
  • 36. Whose memoir is 'The Diary of a Young Girl'?
A) Elie Wiesel
B) Harriet Jacobs
C) Maya Angelou
D) Anne Frank
  • 37. Who is the author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Harper Lee
B) Toni Morrison
C) William Faulkner
D) Truman Capote
  • 38. Which ancient playwright wrote 'Medea'?
A) Aeschylus
B) Aristophanes
C) Sophocles
D) Euripides
  • 39. Who is the protagonist in Homer's 'The Odyssey'?
A) Perseus
B) Achilles
C) Odysseus
D) Orpheus
  • 40. Who wrote 'Don Quixote'?
A) Pablo Neruda
B) Miguel de Cervantes
C) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
D) Jorge Luis Borges
  • 41. Which ancient author wrote 'The Histories'?
A) Herodotus
B) Thucydides
C) Homer
D) Plutarch
  • 42. What is the title of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel?
A) To Kill a Mockingbird
B) 1984
C) The Great Gatsby
D) Moby Dick
  • 43. Which classic novel is an allegory for the Russian Revolution?
A) Frankenstein
B) Lord of the Flies
C) Animal Farm
D) War and Peace
  • 44. Who is the author of 'Little Women'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Louisa May Alcott
C) Agatha Christie
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 45. Who is the author of 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) Jane Austen
B) Mary Shelley
C) Emily Brontë
D) Charlotte Brontë
  • 46. Which novel tells the story of a whale hunt and the captain obsessed with revenge?
A) Moby Dick
B) Heart of Darkness
C) Lord of the Flies
D) The Old Man and the Sea
  • 47. Who is the main character in George Orwell's novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'?
A) Atticus Finch
B) Elizabeth Bennet
C) Winston Smith
D) John Watson
  • 48. In 'The Great Gatsby', who is the narrator?
A) Tom Buchanan
B) Nick Carraway
C) Daisy Buchanan
D) Jay Gatsby
  • 49. Which character famously shouts 'It's alive!' in 'Frankenstein'?
A) The Creature
B) Elizabeth Lavenza
C) Victor Frankenstein
D) Henry Clerval
  • 50. 'The Scarlet Letter' is set in which American state?
A) New York
B) Virginia
C) Massachusetts
D) California
  • 51. Which novel features the character Jean Valjean?
A) Crime and Punishment
B) Anna Karenina
C) The Count of Monte Cristo
D) Les Misérables
  • 52. Who is the author of 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) John Steinbeck
C) William Faulkner
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 53. Which American author wrote 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Herman Melville
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 54. Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?
A) George Orwell
B) Philip K. Dick
C) Aldous Huxley
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 55. Who penned the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 56. In 'Gulliver's Travels', what is the name of the land where people are less than 6 inches tall?
A) Lilliput
B) Houyhnhnms
C) Brobdingnag
D) Glubbdubdrib
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