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