World Literature
Q1. How many lines does a Shakespearean sonnet have
(A) 8
(B) 10
(C) 13
(D) 14
Answer: (D) 14
Q2. Who is the writer of the book 'Robinson Crusoe"
(A) Daniel Defoe
(B) John Keats
(C) Charles Dickens
(D) John Milton
Answer: (A) Daniel Defoe
Q3. Which one is the world's longest novel
(A) A Suitable Boy
(B) L'Astrée
(C) Remembrance of Things Past
(D) War and Peace
Answer: (C) Remembrance of Things Past
Q4. Who is the author of the famous novel 'War and Peace'
(A) Anton Chekhov
(B) Nikolai Gogol
(C) Leo Tolstoy
(D) Karl Marx
Answer: (C) Leo Tolstoy
Q5. Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry
(A) William Shakespeare
(B) Geoffrey Chaucer
(C) John Milton
(D) William Wordsworth
Answer: (B) Geoffrey Chaucer
Q6. Who is known as the national poet of England
(A) William Wordsworth
(B) John Keats
(C) William Shakespeare
(D) T. S. Eliot
Answer: (C) William Shakespeare
Q7. Which one is the world's longest-running play
(A) The Mousetrap
(B) Romeo and Juliet
(C) Othello
(D) Macbeth
Answer: (A) The Mousetrap
Q8. The fictional detective character Sherlock Holmes is the creation of
(A) Agatha Christie
(B) Arthur Conan Doyle
(C) J. K. Rowling
(D) Rudyard Kipling
Answer: (B) Arthur Conan Doyle
Q9. Total how many numbers of detective novels written by Agatha Christie
(A) 22
(B) 30
(C) 52
(D) 66
Answer: (D) 66
Q10. Who is the author of the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days'
(A) Jules Verne
(B) H. G. Wells
(C) Mark Twain
(D) Charles Dickens
Answer: (A) Jules Verne
Q11. Which one is a femal fictional detective character of Agatha Christie's novel
(A) Anna Karenina
(B) Jane Eyre
(C) Miss Marple
(D) Daisy Miller
Answer: (C) Miss Marple
Q12. Which one is not a science fiction writer
(A) H. G. Wells
(B) Victor Hugo
(C) Hugo Gernsback
(D) Jules Verne
Answer: (B) Victor Hugo
Q13. Who is the first ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
(A) Theodor Mommsen
(B) Sully Prudhomme
(C) Rudyard Kipling
(D) Henryk Sienkiewicz
Answer: (B) Sully Prudhomme
Q14. Who is the first femal winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
(A) Selma Lagerlöf
(B) Pearl S. Buck
(C) Grazia Deledda
(D) Gabriela Mistral
Answer: (A) Selma Lagerlöf
Q15. Which Booker Prize winning novel is chosen as the 'the best novel out of all the winners' on its 25th and
40th anniversary
(A) Holiday
(B) The Conservationist
(C) Midnight's Children
(D) Something to Answer For
Answer: (C) Midnight's Children
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