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World literature
Contributed by: Leonard
  • 1. World literature refers to literature from all around the globe, encompassing works written in various languages, cultures, and historical periods. It reflects the diversity of human experience and offers insights into different societies, perspectives, and traditions. World literature bridges the gap between cultures and allows us to explore universal themes such as love, war, identity, and human nature. Through the power of storytelling, world literature nurtures empathy, fosters understanding, and promotes intercultural dialogue. It has the ability to transcend borders and connect people from different corners of the world through shared stories and shared humanity.

    Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A) Jane Austen
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) William Shakespeare
D) Charles Dickens
  • 2. Which ancient poet wrote 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
A) Sappho
B) Virgil
C) Homer
D) Ovid
  • 3. Who is the author of the novel 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) Franz Kafka
  • 4. Which author wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Harper Lee
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 5. Who is the writer of 'The Divine Comedy'?
A) Dante Alighieri
B) Herman Melville
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Miguel de Cervantes
  • 6. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Nikolai Gogol
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Anton Chekhov
  • 7. Which Greek philosopher wrote 'The Republic'?
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Epicurus
  • 8. Who is the author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Emily Bronte
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Joseph Conrad
  • 9. Which author wrote 'Don Quixote'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Gustave Flaubert
C) Tolstoy
D) Miguel de Cervantes
  • 10. Who wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'?
A) William Faulkner
B) Charles Dickens
C) Thomas Hardy
D) Herman Melville
  • 11. Which American author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) John Steinbeck
  • 12. Who authored the novel 'Les Misérables'?
A) Alexandre Dumas
B) Victor Hugo
C) Charles Baudelaire
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 13. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
A) H.G. Wells
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Henry James
D) Joseph Conrad
  • 14. Who is the author of 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) John Keats
B) John Milton
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) William Wordsworth
  • 15. Which author wrote 'The Metamorphosis'?
A) Hermann Hesse
B) Franz Kafka
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) Thomas Mann
  • 16. Which Brazilian author wrote 'The Alchemist'?
A) Clarice Lispector
B) Paulo Coelho
C) Machado de Assis
D) Jorge Amado
  • 17. Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) William Faulkner
C) John Steinbeck
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 18. Which author wrote 'The Stranger'?
A) Franz Kafka
B) Hermann Hesse
C) Albert Camus
D) Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 19. Who is the author of 'Mrs Dalloway'?
A) D.H. Lawrence
B) E.M. Forster
C) Virginia Woolf
D) George Orwell
  • 20. Which Chinese author wrote 'Dream of the Red Chamber'?
A) Lu Xun
B) Mo Yan
C) Cao Xueqin
D) Yu Hua
  • 21. Who wrote 'Madame Bovary'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Émile Zola
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 22. Which American novelist wrote 'Beloved'?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Maya Angelou
C) Alice Walker
D) Toni Morrison
  • 23. Who is the author of 'Things Fall Apart'?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
C) Wole Soyinka
D) Nadine Gordimer
  • 24. Who wrote 'The Road'?
A) Thomas Pynchon
B) David Foster Wallace
C) Cormac McCarthy
D) Don DeLillo
  • 25. Which novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family in the town of Macondo?
A) One Hundred Years of Solitude
B) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
C) The Autumn of the Patriarch
D) Love in the Time of Cholera
  • 26. Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Jane Austen
B) Emily Bronte
C) Charlotte Bronte
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 27. What novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering?
A) The Idiot
B) The Brothers Karamazov
C) Crime and Punishment
D) Notes from Underground
  • 28. Who is the author of the novel '1984'?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) George Orwell
C) Ray Bradbury
D) J.R.R. Tolkien
  • 29. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) John Milton
B) Andrew Marvell
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) Alexander Pope
  • 30. Who is the author of the play 'A Doll's House'?
A) August Strindberg
B) George Bernard Shaw
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Henrik Ibsen
  • 31. Which Greek tragedian wrote 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'?
A) Sophocles
B) Euripides
C) Aeschylus
D) Herodotus
  • 32. Who wrote the novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Herman Melville
D) Henry David Thoreau
  • 33. Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?
A) Kazuo Ishiguro
B) Margaret Atwood
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Haruki Murakami
  • 34. Which novel by Chinua Achebe chronicles pre-colonial life in Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans?
A) No Longer at Ease
B) Arrow of God
C) Anthills of the Savannah
D) Things Fall Apart
  • 35. Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard'?
A) Nikolai Gogol
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Leo Tolstoy
D) Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 36. Who is the author of the novel 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'?
A) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
B) Ivan Turgenev
C) Boris Pasternak
D) Vladimir Nabokov
  • 37. Which novel by Albert Camus explores the philosophy of the absurd?
A) The Plague
B) The Fall
C) The Stranger
D) The Myth of Sisyphus
  • 38. Which author is famous for 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series?
A) Philip K. Dick
B) J.R.R. Tolkien
C) Douglas Adams
D) Terry Pratchett
  • 39. Who wrote the poem 'The Waste Land'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Ezra Pound
C) T.S. Eliot
D) William Butler Yeats
  • 40. Which Mexican author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990?
A) Julio Cortazar
B) Octavio Paz
C) Carlos Fuentes
D) Laura Esquivel
  • 41. Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
A) A Christmas Carol
B) Great Expectations
C) Oliver Twist
D) Bleak House
  • 42. Which novel by Victor Hugo features the character Jean Valjean?
A) Les Misérables
B) The Man Who Laughs
C) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
D) Toilers of the Sea
  • 43. 'The Book Thief' is a novel by which Australian author?
A) Christos Tsiolkas
B) Markus Zusak
C) Tim Winton
D) Liane Moriarty
  • 44. Which American novel begins with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) Moby-Dick
D) The Catcher in the Rye
  • 45. Who wrote the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) George Eliot
B) Emily Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Anne Brontë
  • 46. Which Nobel Laureate from Egypt wrote 'Palace Walk'?
A) Radwa Ashour
B) Salwa Bakr
C) Naguib Mahfouz
D) Tawfiq al-Hakim
  • 47. Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for 'Midnight's Children'?
A) Arundhati Roy
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Vikram Seth
  • 48. Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?
A) George Orwell
B) Aldous Huxley
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Philip K. Dick
  • 49. Who is the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?
A) Émile Zola
B) Alexandre Dumas
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Victor Hugo
  • 50. Which Japanese author wrote 'Norwegian Wood'?
A) Haruki Murakami
B) Ryunosuke Akutagawa
C) Natsume Sōseki
D) Yukio Mishima
  • 51. Who wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Anne Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) George Eliot
  • 52. Who is the author of 'Invisible Man'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Ralph Ellison
C) James Baldwin
D) Richard Wright
  • 53. Which Irish author wrote 'Ulysses'?
A) James Joyce
B) Samuel Beckett
C) George Bernard Shaw
D) Oscar Wilde
  • 54. Who wrote the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Harper Lee
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Charles Dickens
  • 55. Which author wrote the satirical novel 'Candide'?
A) Voltaire
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Ralph Ellison
D) Jules Verne
  • 56. Which author is known for writing 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) William Faulkner
D) John Steinbeck
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