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