World Literature MCQs with Answers
Who is the author of the novel “Pride and Prejudice”?
a) Jane Austen
b) Charlotte Bronte
c) Emily Bronte
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: a) Jane Austen
Which play by William Shakespeare features the characters Romeo and Juliet?
a) Macbeth
b) Hamlet
c) Romeo and Juliet
d) Julius Caesar
Answer: c) Romeo and Juliet
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a novel written by:
a) Mark Twain
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Harper Lee
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: c) Harper Lee
Who wrote the epic poem “The Iliad”?
a) Homer
b) Virgil
c) Dante
d) Ovid
Answer: a) Homer
Which author is known for the novel “1984?
a) George Orwell
b) Aldous Huxley
c) Ray Bradbury
d) J.R.R. Tolkien
Answer: a) George Orwell
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” is a novel written by:
a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
b) Isabel Allende
c) Mario Vargas Llosa
d) Julio Cortazar
Answer: a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Who is the author of the play “Hamlet”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Arthur Miller
Answer: a) William Shakespeare
“The Great Gatsby” is a novel written by:
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) J.D. Salinger
d) Harper Lee
Answer: a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote the novel “Moby-Dick”?
a) Herman Melville
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: a) Herman Melville
“Don Quixote” is a novel written by:
a) Miguel de Cervantes
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) Fyodor Dostoevsky
d) Franz Kafka
Answer: a) Miguel de Cervantes
Who is the author of the novel “To the Lighthouse”?
a) Virginia Woolf
b) Jane Austen
c) Charlotte Bronte
d) Emily Bronte
Answer: a) Virginia Woolf
Which author is known for the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”?
a) J.D. Salinger
b) Mark Twain
c) Harper Lee
d) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: a) J.D. Salinger
Who wrote the play “Macbeth”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Arthur Miller
Answer: a) William Shakespeare
“War and Peace” is a novel written by:
a) Leo Tolstoy
b) Fyodor Dostoevsky
c) Ivan Turgenev
d) Anton Chekhov
Answer: a) Leo Tolstoy
Who is the author of the novel “Jane Eyre”?
a) Charlotte Bronte
b) Jane Austen
c) Emily Bronte
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: a) Charlotte Bronte
Which author is known for the novel “The Lord of the Rings”?
a) J.R.R. Tolkien
b) C.S. Lewis
c) J.K. Rowling
d) George R.R. Martin
Answer: a) J.R.R. Tolkien
Who wrote the play “Hamlet”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Arthur Miller
Answer: a) William Shakespeare
“Crime and Punishment” is a novel written by:
a) Fyodor Dostoevsky
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) Anton Chekhov
d) Ivan Turgenev
Answer: a) Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who is the author of the novel “Wuthering Heights”?
a) Emily Bronte
b) Charlotte Bronte
c) Jane Austen
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: a) Emily Bronte
Which author is known for the novel “Brave New World“?
a) Aldous Huxley
b) George Orwell
c) Ray Bradbury
d) J.R.R. Tolkien
Answer: a) Aldous Huxley
Who wrote the play “Romeo and Juliet”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Arthur Miller
Answer: a) William Shakespeare
“The Odyssey” is an epic poem written by:
a) Homer
b) Virgil
c) Dante
d) Ovid
Answer: a) Homer
Who is the author of the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”?
a) Oscar Wilde
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) J.D. Salinger
Answer: a) Oscar Wilde
Which author is known for the novel “Anna Karenina”?
a) Leo Tolstoy
b) Fyodor Dostoevsky
c) Anton Chekhov
d) Ivan Turgenev
Answer: a) Leo Tolstoy
Who wrote the novel “Sense and Sensibility”?
a) Jane Austen
b) Charlotte Bronte
c) Emily Bronte
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: a) Jane Austen
Which author is known for the novel “The Grapes of Wrath”?
a) John Steinbeck
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Harper Lee
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: a) John Steinbeck
Who wrote the play “Macbeth”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Arthur Miller
Answer: a) William Shakespeare
“The Divine Comedy” is an epic poem written by:
a) Dante
b) Homer
c) Virgil
d) Ovid
Answer: a) Dante
Who is the author of the novel “A Tale of Two Cities”?
a) Charles Dickens
b) Mark Twain
c) Jane Austen
d) Emily Bronte
Answer: a) Charles Dickens
Which author is known for the novel “The Odyssey”?
a) Homer
b) Virgil
c) Dante
d) Ovid
Answer: a) Homer
Who wrote the play “Hamlet”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Arthur Miller
Answer: a) William Shakespeare
“The Brothers Karamazov” is a novel written by:
a) Fyodor Dostoevsky
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) Anton Chekhov
d) Ivan Turgenev
Answer: a) Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who is the author of the novel “Frankenstein”?
a) Mary Shelley
b) Emily Bronte
c) Charlotte Bronte
d) Jane Austen
Answer: a) Mary Shelley
Which author is known for the novel “The Canterbury Tales”?
a) Geoffrey Chaucer
b) William Shakespeare
c) Oscar Wilde
d) Samuel Beckett
Answer: a) Geoffrey Chaucer
Who wrote the novel “The Scarlet Letter”?
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Herman Melville
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Which author is known for the novel “The Metamorphosis”?
a) Franz Kafka
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) Fyodor Dostoevsky
d) Anton Chekhov
Answer: a) Franz Kafka
Who wrote the play “Othello”?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Arthur Miller
Answer: a) William Shakespeare
“The Sound and the Fury” is a novel written by:
a) William Faulkner
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: a) William Faulkner
Who is the author of the novel “Little Women”?
a) Louisa May Alcott
b) Charlotte Bronte
c) Jane Austen
d) Emily Bronte
Answer: a) Louisa May Alcott
Which author is known for the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?
a) Mark Twain
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Harper Lee
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: a) Mark Twain