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