Who wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) William Shakespeare
c) Jane Austen
d) Charles Dickens
Answer: b) William Shakespeare
What is the famous opening line of Charles Dickens’ novel “A Tale of Two Cities?
a) “Call me Ishmael.”
b) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
c) “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
d) “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Answer: b) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Who wrote the epic poem “Paradise Lost”?
a) John Milton
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) John Donne
d) Lord Byron
Answer: a) John Milton
Which novel by Jane Austen follows the life of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne?
a) “Pride and Prejudice”
b) “Sense and Sensibility”
c) “Emma”
d) “Mansfield Park”
Answer: b) “Sense and Sensibility”
Who is the author of the novel “1984?
a) George Orwell
b) Aldous Huxley
c) J.R.R. Tolkien
d) Agatha Christie
Answer: a) George Orwell
Which play by Oscar Wilde features the character Lady Bracknell?
a) “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
b) “The Importance of Being Earnest”
c) “An Ideal Husband”
d) “Salome”
Answer: b) “The Importance of Being Earnest”
Who is the author of the novel “Wuthering Heights”?
a) Charlotte Brontë
b) Emily Brontë
c) Jane Austen
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: b) Emily Brontë
What is the full title of Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein”?
a) “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus”
b) “Frankenstein; or, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
c) “Frankenstein; or, The Picture of Dorian Gray”
d) “Frankenstein; or, The Hound of the Baskervilles”
Answer: a) “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus”
Which of Shakespeare’s plays features the character Othello?
a) “Hamlet”
b) “Macbeth”
c) “Othello”
d) “King Lear”
Answer: c) “Othello”
Who wrote the poem “The Waste Land”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) T.S. Eliot
c) John Keats
d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer: b) T.S. Eliot
What is the name of the ship that takes Gulliver to Lilliput in Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”?
a) The Pequod
b) The Hispaniola
c) The Mayflower
d) The Adventure
Answer: d) The Adventure
Who is the author of the poem collection “Songs of Innocence and Experience?
a) John Keats
b) William Blake
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) Robert Browning
Answer: b) William Blake
In which Shakespearean play do the characters Benedick and Beatrice appear?
a) “Much Ado About Nothing”
b) “Twelfth Night”
c) “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
d) “The Tempest”
Answer: a) “Much Ado About Nothing”
Which novel by Thomas Hardy tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors?
a) “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”
b) “Far from the Madding Crowd”
c) “Jude the Obscure”
d) “The Mayor of Casterbridge”
Answer: b) “Far from the Madding Crowd”
What is the title of George Orwell’s allegorical novella about totalitarianism and corruption of power?
a) “Animal Farm”
b) “Brave New World
c) “Lord of the Flies”
d) “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Answer: a) “Animal Farm”
Who wrote the poem “The Raven”?
a) Percy Bysshe Shelley
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Walt Whitman
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: b) Edgar Allan Poe
Which novel by Jane Austen follows the life of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy?
a) “Sense and Sensibility”
b) “Pride and Prejudice”
c) “Emma”
d) “Mansfield Park”
Answer: b) “Pride and Prejudice”
What is the name of the island where Prospero and Miranda live in Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest”?
a) Illyria
b) Avalon
c) Atlantis
d) Caliban’s Island
Answer: d) Caliban’s Island
Who wrote the novel “Dracula”?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Bram Stoker
c) Mary Shelley
d) H.G. Wells
Answer: b) Bram Stoker
What is the title of William Golding’s novel about a group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island?
a) “The Catcher in the Rye”
b) “Of Mice and Men”
c) “Lord of the Flies”
d) “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Answer: c) “Lord of the Flies”
Who is the author of the poem “Ode to a Nightingale”?
a) John Keats
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: a) John Keats
Which play by Oscar Wilde features the character Dorian Gray?
a) “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
b) “The Importance of Being Earnest”
c) “An Ideal Husband”
d) “Salome”
Answer: a) “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
What is the name of the orphan boy who becomes a skilled pickpocket in Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist”?
a) Oliver Twist
b) David Copperfield
c) Pip
d) Ebenezer Scrooge
Answer: a) Oliver Twist
Who is the author of the poem collection “The Waste Land”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) T.S. Eliot
c) John Keats
d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer: b) T.S. Eliot
Which of Shakespeare’s plays features the character Portia?
a) “Hamlet”
b) “Macbeth”
c) “The Merchant of Venice”
d) “King Lear”
Answer: c) “The Merchant of Venice”
What is the name of the kingdom ruled by King Lear in Shakespeare’s play of the same name?
a) Scotland
b) Denmark
c) England
d) Britain
Answer: d) Britain
Who wrote the novel “Pride and Prejudice”?
a) Charlotte Brontë
b) Emily Brontë
c) Jane Austen
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: c) Jane Austen
In which Shakespearean play do the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth appear?
a) “Hamlet”
b) “Macbeth”
c) “Othello”
d) “King Lear”
Answer: b) “Macbeth”
What is the title of Charles Dickens’ novel featuring the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
a) “A Tale of Two Cities”
b) “Great Expectations”
c) “Oliver Twist”
d) “A Christmas Carol”
Answer: d) “A Christmas Carol”
Who is the author of the novel “Emma”?
a) Jane Austen
b) Emily Brontë
c) Charlotte Brontë
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: a) Jane Austen
Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Pip?
a) “A Tale of Two Cities”
b) “Great Expectations”
c) “Oliver Twist”
d) “A Christmas Carol”
Answer: b) “Great Expectations”
Who wrote the poem “Ode to Autumn”?
a) John Keats
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: a) John Keats
Which novel by Mary Shelley tells the story of a scientist who creates a sentient creature?
a) “Frankenstein”
b) “Dracula”
c) “Jane Eyre”
d) “Sense and Sensibility”
Answer: a) “Frankenstein”
What is the full title of Charles Dickens’ novel “Great Expectations”?
a) “Great Expectations; or, The Adventures of Oliver Twist”
b) “Great Expectations; or, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
c) “Great Expectations; or, The Picture of Dorian Gray”
d) “Great Expectations; or, The Hound of the Baskervilles”
Answer: a) “Great Expectations; or, The Adventures of Oliver Twist”
Who is the author of the poem “Kubla Khan”?
a) John Keats
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is the title of Charlotte Brontë’s novel about an orphaned girl who becomes a governess?
a) “Wuthering Heights”
b) “Jane Eyre”
c) “Emma”
d) “Mansfield Park”
Answer: b) “Jane Eyre”
Who wrote the poem “To a Skylark”?
a) John Keats
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which novel by Jane Austen follows the life of the young and naive Emma Woodhouse?
a) “Sense and Sensibility”
b) “Pride and Prejudice”
c) “Emma”
d) “Mansfield Park”
Answer: c) “Emma”
Who is the author of the poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”?
a) John Keats
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: d) William Wordsworth
What is the title of George Orwell’s dystopian novel set in a totalitarian society?
a) “Animal Farm”
b) “Brave New World”
c) “1984”
d) “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Answer: c) “1984”
Who is the author of the poem collection “The Canterbury Tales”?
a) John Keats
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: d) Geoffrey Chaucer
Which of Shakespeare’s plays features the character Hamlet?
a) “Hamlet”
b) “Macbeth”
c) “Othello”
d) “King Lear”
Answer: a) “Hamlet”
What is the title of Charles Dickens’ novel featuring the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
a) “A Tale of Two Cities”
b) “Great Expectations”
c) “Oliver Twist”
d) “A Christmas Carol”
Answer: d) “A Christmas Carol”
Who wrote the poem “Kubla Khan”?
a) John Keats
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is the name of the orphan boy who becomes a skilled pickpocket in Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist”?
a) Oliver Twist
b) David Copperfield
c) Pip
d) Ebenezer Scrooge
Answer: a) Oliver Twist
Who is the author of the poem collection “The Waste Land”?
a) William Wordsworth
b) T.S. Eliot
c) John Keats
d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer: b) T.S. Eliot
Which of Shakespeare’s plays features the character Portia?
a) “Hamlet”
b) “Macbeth”
c) “The Merchant of Venice”
d) “King Lear”
Answer: c) “The Merchant of Venice”
What is the name of the kingdom ruled by King Lear in Shakespeare’s play of the same name?
a) Scotland
b) Denmark
c) England
d) Britain
Answer: d) Britain
Who wrote the novel “Pride and Prejudice”?
a) Charlotte Brontë
b) Emily Brontë
c) Jane Austen
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: c) Jane Austen
In which Shakespearean play do the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth appear?
a) “Hamlet”
b) “Macbeth”
c) “Othello”
d) “King Lear”
Answer: b) “Macbeth”
