UK Culture MCQs

British Authors MCQs with Answers

Who wrote the novel “Pride and Prejudice”?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Charles Dickens
D) George Orwell
Answer: B) Jane Austen

Which British author is known for the fantasy series “The Chronicles of Narnia?
A) J.R.R. Tolkien
B) George Orwell
C) Lewis Carroll
D) C.S. Lewis
Answer: D) C.S. Lewis

Who wrote the novel “1984,” a dystopian classic that explores totalitarianism?
A) Jane Austen
B) Charles Dickens
C) George Orwell
D) J.R.R. Tolkien
Answer: C) George Orwell

Which British author is best known for the detective character Sherlock Holmes?
A) Agatha Christie
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Raymond Chandler
D) Daphne du Maurier
Answer: B) Arthur Conan Doyle

Who wrote the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” addressing racial injustice in the American South?
A) George Orwell
B) Jane Austen
C) Harper Lee
D) Charles Dickens
Answer: C) Harper Lee

Which British author penned the novel “Wuthering Heights”?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) George Eliot
Answer: A) Emily Brontë

Who is known for the literary classic “A Tale of Two Cities” set during the French Revolution?
A) George Orwell
B) Jane Austen
C) Charles Dickens
D) Thomas Hardy
Answer: C) Charles Dickens

Which British author created the character Mr. Darcy in “Pride and Prejudice”?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Charles Dickens
D) George Orwell
Answer: B) Jane Austen

Who wrote the novel “Lord of the Flies,” exploring the dark aspects of human nature?
A) J.R.R. Tolkien
B) George Orwell
C) William Golding
D) C.S. Lewis
Answer: C) William Golding

Which British author created the whimsical world of Wonderland in “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
A) J.M. Barrie
B) George Orwell
C) Lewis Carroll
D) Roald Dahl
Answer: C) Lewis Carroll

Who wrote the novel “Brave New World,” depicting a dystopian future society?
A) George Orwell
B) Aldous Huxley
C) H.G. Wells
D) Ray Bradbury
Answer: B) Aldous Huxley

Which British author is famous for the novel “Oliver Twist” and the character of Oliver Twist?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Jane Austen
C) George Orwell
D) Emily Brontë
Answer: A) Charles Dickens

Who is known for the novel “Dracula,” featuring the iconic vampire Count Dracula?
A) Mary Shelley
B) Bram Stoker
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Arthur Conan Doyle
Answer: B) Bram Stoker

Which British author is known for the children’s book “Peter Pan”?
A) Lewis Carroll
B) J.M. Barrie
C) Roald Dahl
D) Enid Blyton
Answer: B) J.M. Barrie

Who wrote the novel “Great Expectations,” featuring the character Pip?
A) Jane Austen
B) Charles Dickens
C) Emily Brontë
D) George Eliot
Answer: B) Charles Dickens

Which British author created the character of Hercule Poirot, a famous detective?
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Agatha Christie
C) Daphne du Maurier
D) P.G. Wodehouse
Answer: B) Agatha Christie

Who is known for the novel “Jane Eyre” and the character of Jane Eyre?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) George Eliot
Answer: C) Charlotte Brontë

Which British author is famous for the fantasy series “Harry Potter”?
A) C.S. Lewis
B) J.K. Rowling
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) Roald Dahl
Answer: B) J.K. Rowling

Who wrote the novel “Moby-Dick,” about the obsessed Captain Ahab and his pursuit of a white whale?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Herman Melville
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Mark Twain
Answer: B) Herman Melville

Which British author is known for the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”?
A) George Orwell
B) Jane Austen
C) Oscar Wilde
D) Mary Shelley
Answer: C) Oscar Wilde

Who wrote the novel “Frankenstein,” often considered an early work of science fiction?
A) Bram Stoker
B) Mary Shelley
C) H.G. Wells
D) Jules Verne
Answer: B) Mary Shelley

Which British author is known for the novel “Robinson Crusoe”?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Jane Austen
C) Daniel Defoe
D) George Eliot
Answer: C) Daniel Defoe

Who is known for the novel “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” featuring Sherlock Holmes?
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Agatha Christie
C) Raymond Chandler
D) Daphne du Maurier
Answer: A) Arthur Conan Doyle

Which British author is famous for the novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”?
A) J.M. Barrie
B) George Orwell
C) Lewis Carroll
D) Roald Dahl
Answer: C) Lewis Carroll

Who wrote the novel “The Wind in the Willows,” featuring the adventures of Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger?
A) A.A. Milne
B) Beatrix Potter
C) Kenneth Grahame
D) Roald Dahl
Answer: C) Kenneth Grahame

Which British author is known for the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) John Steinbeck
Answer: A) J.D. Salinger

Who wrote the novel “The War of the Worlds,” describing a Martian invasion of Earth?
A) Mary Shelley
B) Bram Stoker
C) H.G. Wells
D) Jules Verne
Answer: C) H.G. Wells

Which British author is famous for the novel “The Jungle Book”?
A) Rudyard Kipling
B) Joseph Conrad
C) E.M. Forster
D) P.G. Wodehouse
Answer: A) Rudyard Kipling

Who is known for the novel “Treasure Island” and the character Long John Silver?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Jane Austen
C) Robert Louis Stevenson
D) George Eliot
Answer: C) Robert Louis Stevenson

Which British author is famous for the novel “Middlemarch”?
A) George Orwell
B) Jane Austen
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) George Eliot
Answer: D) George Eliot

Who wrote the novel “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men”?
A) Cormac McCarthy
B) John Steinbeck
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: A) Cormac McCarthy

Which British author is known for the novel “Brideshead Revisited”?
A) Evelyn Waugh
B) P.G. Wodehouse
C) Daphne du Maurier
D) Agatha Christie
Answer: A) Evelyn Waugh

Who is known for the novel “The Great Gatsby,” portraying the Roaring Twenties in America?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) John Steinbeck
D) Cormac McCarthy
Answer: A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

Which British author is famous for the novel “A Room with a View”?
A) George Orwell
B) Jane Austen
C) E.M. Forster
D) Mary Shelley
Answer: C) E.M. Forster

Who wrote the novel “The Woman in White,” considered one of the earliest mystery novels?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Jane Austen
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) Wilkie Collins
Answer: D) Wilkie Collins

Which British author is known for the novel “Bleak House” and its critique of the legal system?
A) George Orwell
B) Jane Austen
C) Charles Dickens
D) Emily Brontë
Answer: C) Charles Dickens

Who is known for the novel “The Call of the Wild,” featuring the dog Buck in the Yukon wilderness?
A) Jack London
B) Mark Twain
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Herman Melville
Answer: A) Jack London

Which British author is famous for the novel “Far from the Madding Crowd”?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Charles Dickens
C) George Eliot
D) Jane Austen
Answer: A) Thomas Hardy

Who wrote the novel “The Road to Wigan Pier,” exploring the lives of the working class in England?
A) George Orwell
B) Jane Austen
C) Charles Dickens
D) Emily Brontë
Answer: A) George Orwell

Which British author is known for the novel “The Secret Garden”?
A) Louisa May Alcott
B) Frances Hodgson Burnett
C) L.M. Montgomery
D) Beatrix Potter
Answer: B) Frances Hodgson Burnett

Who is known for the novel “The Portrait of a Lady” and her exploration of the role of women in society?
A) George Eliot
B) Charlotte Brontë
C) Jane Austen
D) Henry James
Answer: D) Henry James

Which British author is famous for the novel “Jude the Obscure”?
A) George Orwell
B) Jane Austen
C) Thomas Hardy
D) Charles Dickens
Answer: C) Thomas Hardy

Who wrote the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” a masterpiece of magical realism?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Isabel Allende
C) Julio Cortázar
D) Mario Vargas Llosa
Answer: A) Gabriel García Márquez

Which British author is known for the novel “The Railway Children”?
A) Enid Blyton
B) Beatrix Potter
C) E. Nesbit
D) Frances Hodgson Burnett
Answer: C) E. Nesbit

Who wrote the novel “Heart of Darkness,” exploring the dark side of colonialism in Africa?
A) Joseph Conrad
B) E.M. Forster
C) George Orwell
D) Rudyard Kipling
Answer: A) Joseph Conrad

Which British author is famous for the novel “The Lord of the Flies”?
A) William Golding
B) George Orwell
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) C.S. Lewis
Answer: A) William Golding

Who wrote the novel “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”?
A) Robert Louis Stevenson
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Bram Stoker
Answer: A) Robert Louis Stevenson

Which British author is known for the novel “Kidnapped”?
A) Charles Dickens
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Robert Louis Stevenson
D) George Eliot
Answer: C) Robert Louis Stevenson

Who is known for the novel “The Day of the Triffids,” featuring deadly plants that threaten humanity?
A) John Wyndham
B) Isaac Asimov
C) Arthur C. Clarke
D) Philip K. Dick
Answer: A) John Wyndham

Which British author is famous for the novel “The Riddle of the Sands”?
A) Erskine Childers
B) John Buchan
C) Ian Fleming
D) Arthur Conan Doyle
Answer: A) Erskine Childers

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