ENGLISH LITERATURE
📚 30 Questions – Shakespeare, British, American, Poetry & More
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Directions: Choose the best answer for each question (A – E). Answers are provided below each question.
🎭 William Shakespeare
1. Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?
A) Charles Dickens
B) William Shakespeare
C) Jane Austen
D) Mark Twain
E) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: B
2. "To be, or not to be" is a famous line from which play?
A) Macbeth
B) Othello
C) Hamlet
D) King Lear
E) Julius Caesar
Answer: C
3. Which play features the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth?
A) Hamlet
B) Othello
C) Macbeth
D) King Lear
E) The Tempest
Answer: C
4. "All the world's a stage" comes from which Shakespeare play?
A) As You Like It
B) Twelfth Night
C) Much Ado About Nothing
D) The Merchant of Venice
E) A Midsummer Night's Dream
Answer: A
5. Who is the tragic hero of "Othello"?
A) Iago
B) Cassio
C) Othello
D) Desdemona
E) Roderigo
Answer: C
6. Shakespeare's plays were performed at which famous theater?
A) The Colosseum
B) The Globe Theatre
C) The Royal Opera House
D) The Apollo Theater
E) The Lyceum Theatre
Answer: B
7. In "A Midsummer Night's Dream," who is the fairy king?
A) Puck
B) Oberon
C) Titania
D) Bottom
E) Theseus
Answer: B
🇬🇧 British Authors
8. Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?
A) Emily Bronte
B) Charles Dickens
C) Jane Austen
D) Virginia Woolf
E) George Eliot
Answer: C
9. "Oliver Twist" and "A Christmas Carol" were written by whom?
A) Charles Dickens
B) William Thackeray
C) Thomas Hardy
D) D.H. Lawrence
E) George Orwell
Answer: A
10. Who wrote the novel "Wuthering Heights"?
A) Charlotte Bronte
B) Emily Bronte
C) Anne Bronte
D) Jane Austen
E) Mary Shelley
Answer: B
11. "1984" and "Animal Farm" were written by:
A) Aldous Huxley
B) George Orwell
C) H.G. Wells
D) J.R.R. Tolkien
E) C.S. Lewis
Answer: B
12. "The Great Gatsby" was written by which author?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) John Steinbeck
D) William Faulkner
E) Mark Twain
Answer: B
13. Who wrote "Frankenstein"?
A) Bram Stoker
B) Mary Shelley
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) H.P. Lovecraft
E) Oscar Wilde
Answer: B
14. "The Canterbury Tales" was written by:
A) William Shakespeare
B) John Milton
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
D) Edmund Spenser
E) John Donne
Answer: C
15. "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy was written by:
A) J.K. Rowling
B) C.S. Lewis
C) J.R.R. Tolkien
D) George R.R. Martin
E) Terry Pratchett
Answer: C
🇺🇸 American Authors
16. Who wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?
A) Mark Twain
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Herman Melville
D) Edgar Allan Poe
E) Walt Whitman
Answer: A
17. "The Old Man and the Sea" was written by:
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) John Steinbeck
D) William Faulkner
E) Jack London
Answer: B
18. "The Tell-Tale Heart" was written by:
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Herman Melville
D) Henry James
E) Stephen Crane
Answer: B
19. "The Grapes of Wrath" was written by whom?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Sinclair Lewis
E) John Dos Passos
Answer: A
20. Who wrote "The Scarlet Letter"?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Herman Melville
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Washington Irving
E) James Fenimore Cooper
Answer: C
21. "The Catcher in the Rye" was written by:
A) J.D. Salinger
B) Harper Lee
C) Kurt Vonnegut
D) John Updike
E) Norman Mailer
Answer: A
22. "To Kill a Mockingbird" was written by:
A) Harper Lee
B) Truman Capote
C) Flannery O'Connor
D) Carson McCullers
E) Eudora Welty
Answer: A
📝 Poetry
23. "The Road Not Taken" was written by which poet?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Robert Frost
D) Carl Sandburg
E) Wallace Stevens
Answer: C
24. Who wrote "Ozymandias"?
A) John Keats
B) Percy Bysshe Shelley
C) William Wordsworth
D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
E) Lord Byron
Answer: B
25. "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is a line from a poem by:
A) William Wordsworth
B) John Keats
C) William Blake
D) Lord Byron
E) Percy Shelley
Answer: A
26. The epic poem "Paradise Lost" was written by:
A) Geoffrey Chaucer
B) Edmund Spenser
C) John Milton
D) John Donne
E) Alexander Pope
Answer: C
📖 Literary Terms & Classics
27. What is a protagonist?
A) The villain of the story
B) The main character
C) The narrator
D) A minor character
E) A plot device
Answer: B
28. Which literary term means a comparison using "like" or "as"?
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Hyperbole
D) Personification
E) Alliteration
Answer: B
29. The epic poem "Beowulf" was written in which language?
A) Old French
B) Old English
C) Latin
D) Greek
E) Old Norse
Answer: B
30. Which novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the Jazz Age?
A) Tender Is the Night
B) This Side of Paradise
C) The Great Gatsby
D) The Beautiful and Damned
E) The Last Tycoon
Answer: C
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