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Famous Literary Questions

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the author of the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey?

a)

Homer

b)

Virgil

c)

Dante

d)

Plato

2.

Which English playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet?

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Charles Dickens

c)

Jane Austen

d)

George Orwell

3.

What is the famous Spanish novel about a delusional nobleman who fights windmills?

a)

Don Qui'xote

b)

The Divine Comedy

c)

Moby Dick

d)

War and Peace

4.

Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice, which focuses on the Bennet family?

a)

J'ane Austen

b)

Emily Brontë

c)

Charlotte Brontë

d)

George Eliot

5.

Which classic French novel tells the story of the hunchback Quasimodo and the gypsy Esmeralda?

a)

The Hunchback of N'otre Dame

b)

Les Misérables

c)

The Count of Monte Cristo

d)

Madame Bovary

6.

Who wrote the famous collection of fairy tales, including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling"?

a)

Hans Christian Andersen'

b)

The Brothers Grimm

c)

Lewis Carroll

d)

A.A. Milne

7.

Which Italian poet wrote The Divine Comedy, describing a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven?

a)

Dante Alighieri

b)

Petrarch

c)

Boccaccio

d)

Machiavelli

8.

The novel Frankenstein was written by which English author?

a)

Mary Shelley'

b)

Virginia Woolf

c)

Oscar Wilde

d)

Lord Byron

9.

Which Russian author wrote the epic novel War and Peace?

a)

Leo Tolstoy

b)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

c)

Anton Chekhov

d)

Ivan Turgenev

10.

The story of Ebenezer Scrooge is found in which Christmas novella by Charles Dickens?

a)

A Christmas Carol

b)

Oliver Twist

c)

Great Expectations

d)

David Copperfield

11.

Who is the author of the Gothic novel Dracula?

a)

B'ram Stoker

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

H.P. Lovecraft

d)

Robert Louis Stevenson

12.

Which character in Greek mythology is punished by having to push a boulder up a hill for eternity?

a)

Sisyphus

b)

Hercules

c)

Prometheus

d)

Achilles

13.

Which famous Russian novel begins with the line, "Happy families are all alike..."?

a)

Anna Karenina

b)

Crime and Punishment

c)

The Brothers Karamazov

d)

Dead Souls

14.

Who wrote The Metamorphosis, a story about a man who wakes up as a giant insect?

a)

Franz 'Kafka

b)

Albert Camus

c)

Hermann Hesse

d)

James Joyce

15.

Which classic novel features the young orphan named Pip and the escaped convict Magwitch?

a)

Great Expectations

b)

Wuthering Heights

c)

Jane Eyre

d)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

16.

Which novel by George Orwell features the famous slogan "Big Brother is Watching You"?

a)

1984

b)

Animal Farm

c)

Fahrenheit 451

d)

Brave New World

17.

Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea, about a Cuban fisherman and a giant marlin?

a)

Ernest Hemingway

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

William Faulkner

d)

John Steinbeck

18.

Which American novel features the narrator Nick Carraway and the mysterious Jay Gatsby?

a)

The Great Gatsby

b)

The Grapes of Wrath

c)

Moby-Dick

d)

The Catcher in the Rye

19.

Which author wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, set in the American South?

a)

Harper Lee

b)

J.D. Salinger

c)

Toni Morrison

d)

Zora Neale Hurston

20.

Who is the author of the children's classic The Little Prince?

a)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

b)

Jules Verne

c)

Victor Hugo

d)

Gustave Flaubert

21.

The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is a key work of which Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author?

a)

Gabriel García Márquez

b)

Pablo Neruda

c)

Mario Vargas Llosa

d)

Jorge Luis Borges

22.

Which English author wrote The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series?

a)

C.S. Lewis

b)

J.R.R. Tolkien

c)

Roald Dahl

d)

Philip Pullman

23.

Who wrote the famous collection of poems Leaves of Grass?

a)

Walt Whitman

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

Robert Frost

d)

T.S. Eliot

24.

The character Holden Caulfield is the protagonist of which American novel?

a)

The Catcher in the Rye

b)

On the Road

c)

Of Mice and Men

d)

Catch-22

25.

Which novel by Chinua Achebe tells the story of Okonkwo and is set in Nigeria?

a)

Things Fall Apart

b)

A Grain of Wheat

c)

The River Between

d)

Season of Migration to the North

26.

Who wrote the dystopian novel Brave New World?

a)

Aldous Huxley

b)

Ray Bradbury

c)

H.G. Wells

d)

Isaac Asimov

27.

The Persian epic poem Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) was written by which poet?

a)

Ferdowsi

b)

Rumi

c)

Hafez

d)

Omar Khayyam

28.

Which play by Samuel Beckett features the two characters Vladimir and Estragon waiting for a person who never arrives?

a)

Waiting for Godot

b)

The Zoo Story

c)

Death of a Salesman

d)

Long Day's Journey into Night

29.

Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath, a novel about a family fleeing the Dust Bowl...?

a)

John Steinbeck

b)

Ernest Hemingway

c)

Eudora Welty

d)

Pearl S. Buck

30.

Which author created the famous detective character Sherlock Holmes?

a)

Arthur Conan Doyle

b)

Agatha Christie

c)

Edgar Allan Poe

d)

Dashiell Hammett

31.

What is the original language of the epic poem Beowulf?

a)

Old English

b)

Latin

c)

Middle French

d)

Old Norse

32.

Who wrote the dark and mysterious short story "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

a)

Edgar Allan Poe

b)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

c)

Mark Twain

d)

Washington Irving

33.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, what is the name of the prince of Denmark?

a)

Hamlet

b)

Lear

c)

Othello

d)

Macbeth

34.

Which classic novel features the whale Moby Dick and the obsessed Captain Ahab?

a)

Moby-Dick

b)

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

c)

Heart of Darkness

d)

The Call of the Wild

35.

Who wrote the philosophical novel The Stranger (L'Étranger)?

a)

Albert Camus

b)

Jean-Paul Sartre

c)

Simone de Beauvoir

d)

André Gide

36.

Which character, the governess of Thornfield Hall, is the protagonist of a novel by Charlotte Brontë?

a)

Jane Eyre

b)

Elizabeth Bennet

c)

Cathy Earnshaw

d)

Emma Woodhouse

37.

Which African-American writer wrote Beloved, a novel about a ghost haunting a home?

a)

Toni Morrison

b)

Maya Angelou

c)

Zora Neale Hurston

d)

Alice Walker

38.

What is the term for a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning...?

a)

Allegory

b)

Simile

c)

Irony

d)

Metaphor

39.

The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is set in what kind of facility?

a)

Mental Institution

b)

Prison

c)

Hospital

d)

Boarding School

40.

Who wrote The House on Mango Street, a coming-of-age novel about a young Latina girl in Chicago?

a)

Sandra Cisneros

b)

Amy Tan

c)

Julia Alvarez

d)

Isabel Allende

41.

Which Latin American writer wrote The Alchemist?

a)

Paulo Coelho

b)

Gabriel García Márquez

c)

Jorge Luis Borges

d)

Carlos Fuentes

42.

In Lord of the Rings, what is the name of the Hobbit who carries the One Ring?

a)

Frodo Baggins

b)

Merry Brandybuck

c)

Samwise Gamgee

d)

Pippin Took

43.

Which Greek philosopher is known for his dialogues, including The Republic?

a)

Plato

b)

Aristotle

c)

Socrates

d)

Homer

44.

Who is the author of the novel Things Fall Apart?

a)

Chinua Achebe

b)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

c)

Wole Soyinka

d)

Ben Okri

45.

The character Jean Valjean appears in which of Victor Hugo's novels?

a)

Les Misérables

b)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

c)

The Man Who Laughs

d)

The Toilers of the Sea

46.

What is a stanza in poetry?

a)

A grouping of lines in a poem

b)

A long narrative poem

c)

A comparison using "like" or "as"

d)

The main idea of a story

47.

What is alliteration?

a)

The repetition of consonant sounds at the start of words

b)

The repetition of vowel sounds

c)

An extreme exaggeration

d)

Giving human traits to non-human things

48.

A biography is a true story about:

a)

The life of a different person

b)

The author's own life

c)

A made-up historical event

d)

An imaginary world

49.

What is a theme in literature?

a)

The central, underlying message or idea

b)

The most exciting part of the plot

c)

The author's name

d)

The time and place of the story

50.

A sonnet is a poem with how many lines?

a)

14

b)

10

c)

12

d)

16