World Literature

World Literature Quiz

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is considered the father of English literature?

  1. Geoffrey Chaucer
  2. William Shakespeare
  3. John Milton
  4. Alexander Pope
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by Charles Dickens is set during the French Revolution?

  1. A Tale of Two Cities
  2. Great Expectations
  3. Oliver Twist
  4. David Copperfield
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel (\text{''Crime and Punishment''})?

  1. Raskolnikov
  2. Sonia
  3. Porfiry Petrovich
  4. Svidrigailov
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which work by Dante Alighieri is considered one of the greatest works of Italian literature?

  1. The Divine Comedy
  2. The New Life
  3. Convivio
  4. De Monarchia
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the author of the novel (\text{''To Kill a Mockingbird''})?

  1. Harper Lee
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Ernest Hemingway
  4. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by Jane Austen is set in the Regency Era of England?

  1. Pride and Prejudice
  2. Sense and Sensibility
  3. Emma
  4. Mansfield Park
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Leo Tolstoy's novel (\text{''Anna Karenina''})?

  1. Anna Karenina
  2. Alexei Karenin
  3. Konstantin Levin
  4. Dolly Oblonsky
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which work by Miguel de Cervantes is considered the first modern novel?

  1. Don Quixote
  2. Novelas ejemplares
  3. La Galatea
  4. El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the author of the novel (\text{''The Great Gatsby''})?

  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. Ernest Hemingway
  3. William Faulkner
  4. John Steinbeck
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by Victor Hugo is set during the June Rebellion in Paris?

  1. Les Misérables
  2. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
  3. Toilers of the Sea
  4. Ninety-Three
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in J.D. Salinger's novel (\text{''The Catcher in the Rye''})?

  1. Holden Caulfield
  2. Phoebe Caulfield
  3. D.B. Caulfield
  4. Sally Hayes
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is considered one of the greatest works of German literature?

  1. Faust
  2. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
  3. The Sorrows of Young Werther
  4. Elective Affinities
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who is the author of the novel (\text{''1984''})?

  1. George Orwell
  2. Aldous Huxley
  3. Ray Bradbury
  4. Kurt Vonnegut
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the themes of existentialism and nihilism?

  1. Notes from Underground
  2. The Brothers Karamazov
  3. The Idiot
  4. The Possessed
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Ernest Hemingway's novel (\text{''The Old Man and the Sea''})?

  1. Santiago
  2. Manolin
  3. The Old Man
  4. The Sea