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