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