World literature - Quiz
World literature
  • 1. World literature refers to literature from all around the globe, encompassing works written in various languages, cultures, and historical periods. It reflects the diversity of human experience and offers insights into different societies, perspectives, and traditions. World literature bridges the gap between cultures and allows us to explore universal themes such as love, war, identity, and human nature. Through the power of storytelling, world literature nurtures empathy, fosters understanding, and promotes intercultural dialogue. It has the ability to transcend borders and connect people from different corners of the world through shared stories and shared humanity.

    Who wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'?
A) Charles Dickens
B) William Shakespeare
C) Jane Austen
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 2. Which ancient poet wrote 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'?
A) Ovid
B) Virgil
C) Homer
D) Sappho
  • 3. Who is the author of the novel 'Crime and Punishment'?
A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Franz Kafka
D) Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • 4. Which author wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Harper Lee
  • 5. Who is the writer of 'The Divine Comedy'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Miguel de Cervantes
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
  • 6. Which Russian author wrote 'War and Peace'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 7. Which Greek philosopher wrote 'The Republic'?
A) Epicurus
B) Plato
C) Aristotle
D) Socrates
  • 8. Who is the author of 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
A) Emily Bronte
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Thomas Hardy
D) Joseph Conrad
  • 9. Which author wrote 'Don Quixote'?
A) Gustave Flaubert
B) Victor Hugo
C) Tolstoy
D) Miguel de Cervantes
  • 10. Who wrote the novel 'Great Expectations'?
A) William Faulkner
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Charles Dickens
D) Herman Melville
  • 11. Which American author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) J.D. Salinger
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 12. Who authored the novel 'Les Misérables'?
A) Victor Hugo
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Gustave Flaubert
D) Alexandre Dumas
  • 13. Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?
A) Joseph Conrad
B) H.G. Wells
C) Henry James
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 14. Who is the author of 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A) John Milton
B) Geoffrey Chaucer
C) John Keats
D) William Wordsworth
  • 15. Which author wrote 'The Metamorphosis'?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Thomas Mann
C) Hermann Hesse
D) Franz Kafka
  • 16. Which Brazilian author wrote 'The Alchemist'?
A) Machado de Assis
B) Paulo Coelho
C) Clarice Lispector
D) Jorge Amado
  • 17. Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) William Faulkner
D) John Steinbeck
  • 18. Which author wrote 'The Stranger'?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Hermann Hesse
C) Albert Camus
D) Franz Kafka
  • 19. Who is the author of 'Mrs Dalloway'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) George Orwell
C) E.M. Forster
D) D.H. Lawrence
  • 20. Which Chinese author wrote 'Dream of the Red Chamber'?
A) Lu Xun
B) Cao Xueqin
C) Yu Hua
D) Mo Yan
  • 21. Who wrote 'Madame Bovary'?
A) Gustave Flaubert
B) Charles Baudelaire
C) Émile Zola
D) Victor Hugo
  • 22. Which American novelist wrote 'Beloved'?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Maya Angelou
C) Toni Morrison
D) Alice Walker
  • 23. Who wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre'?
A) Emily Brontë
B) Anne Brontë
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) George Eliot
  • 24. Which novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family in the town of Macondo?
A) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
B) The Autumn of the Patriarch
C) Love in the Time of Cholera
D) One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • 25. Who is the author of the novel 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich'?
A) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
B) Vladimir Nabokov
C) Ivan Turgenev
D) Boris Pasternak
  • 26. Who is the author of 'Invisible Man'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Ralph Ellison
C) James Baldwin
D) Richard Wright
  • 27. Who wrote the novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A) Gabriel García Márquez
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Charles Dickens
D) Harper Lee
  • 28. What novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through suffering?
A) The Idiot
B) Notes from Underground
C) The Brothers Karamazov
D) Crime and Punishment
  • 29. Which author wrote the satirical novel 'Candide'?
A) Thomas Hardy
B) Jules Verne
C) Voltaire
D) Ralph Ellison
  • 30. Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017?
A) Kazuo Ishiguro
B) Margaret Atwood
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Haruki Murakami
  • 31. Who is the author of 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?
A) Émile Zola
B) Victor Hugo
C) Alexandre Dumas
D) Gustave Flaubert
  • 32. Which Greek tragedian wrote 'Oedipus Rex' and 'Antigone'?
A) Euripides
B) Herodotus
C) Sophocles
D) Aeschylus
  • 33. Which author is known for writing 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) William Faulkner
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) John Steinbeck
  • 34. Which author is famous for 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series?
A) Terry Pratchett
B) Philip K. Dick
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) Douglas Adams
  • 35. Who is the author of 'Things Fall Apart'?
A) Chinua Achebe
B) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
C) Wole Soyinka
D) Nadine Gordimer
  • 36. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
A) Alexander Pope
B) John Milton
C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D) Andrew Marvell
  • 37. Which Japanese author wrote 'Norwegian Wood'?
A) Yukio Mishima
B) Haruki Murakami
C) Natsume Sōseki
D) Ryunosuke Akutagawa
  • 38. Which Irish author wrote 'Ulysses'?
A) George Bernard Shaw
B) Oscar Wilde
C) James Joyce
D) Samuel Beckett
  • 39. Who wrote 'The Road'?
A) Thomas Pynchon
B) Cormac McCarthy
C) David Foster Wallace
D) Don DeLillo
  • 40. Which Nobel Laureate from Egypt wrote 'Palace Walk'?
A) Salwa Bakr
B) Naguib Mahfouz
C) Tawfiq al-Hakim
D) Radwa Ashour
  • 41. Who wrote the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A) Charlotte Bronte
B) Jane Austen
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Emily Bronte
  • 42. Which novel by Albert Camus explores the philosophy of the absurd?
A) The Stranger
B) The Fall
C) The Plague
D) The Myth of Sisyphus
  • 43. Who wrote the novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Henry David Thoreau
  • 44. Who wrote the novel 'Wuthering Heights'?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) George Eliot
C) Anne Brontë
D) Emily Brontë
  • 45. Who wrote the poem 'The Waste Land'?
A) William Butler Yeats
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Ezra Pound
D) T.S. Eliot
  • 46. Which Mexican author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990?
A) Laura Esquivel
B) Octavio Paz
C) Julio Cortazar
D) Carlos Fuentes
  • 47. Which novel by Chinua Achebe chronicles pre-colonial life in Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans?
A) Anthills of the Savannah
B) Arrow of God
C) Things Fall Apart
D) No Longer at Ease
  • 48. Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for 'Midnight's Children'?
A) Jhumpa Lahiri
B) Salman Rushdie
C) Arundhati Roy
D) Vikram Seth
  • 49. Who is the author of the play 'A Doll's House'?
A) August Strindberg
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Henrik Ibsen
D) George Bernard Shaw
  • 50. Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
A) Bleak House
B) Great Expectations
C) A Christmas Carol
D) Oliver Twist
  • 51. 'The Book Thief' is a novel by which Australian author?
A) Christos Tsiolkas
B) Tim Winton
C) Liane Moriarty
D) Markus Zusak
  • 52. Who is the author of the novel '1984'?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) J.R.R. Tolkien
C) Ray Bradbury
D) George Orwell
  • 53. Which novel by Victor Hugo features the character Jean Valjean?
A) Toilers of the Sea
B) The Man Who Laughs
C) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
D) Les Misérables
  • 54. Which American novel begins with the line 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) To Kill a Mockingbird
B) The Great Gatsby
C) The Catcher in the Rye
D) Moby-Dick
  • 55. Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard'?
A) Leo Tolstoy
B) Fyodor Dostoevsky
C) Anton Chekhov
D) Nikolai Gogol
  • 56. Who wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?
A) Aldous Huxley
B) George Orwell
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Philip K. Dick
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