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