1. Who wrote the dystopian novel “1984”?
- A) Aldous Huxley
- B) George Orwell
- C) Ray Bradbury
- D) Kurt Vonnegut
Answer: B) George Orwell
2. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” what is the name of the Dark Lord who created the One Ring?
- A) Saruman
- B) Gollum
- C) Morgoth
- D) Sauron
Answer: D) Sauron
3. “Pride and Prejudice” was written by which British author?
- A) Emily Brontë
- B) Charlotte Brontë
- C) Jane Austen
- D) Mary Shelley
Answer: C) Jane Austen
4. Who wrote the famous epic poem “The Iliad”?
- A) Virgil
- B) Homer
- C) Sophocles
- D) Ovid
Answer: B) Homer
5. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, who is the lawyer that defends Tom Robinson, an African American accused of raping a white woman?
- A) Boo Radley
- B) Scout Finch
- C) Atticus Finch
- D) Jem Finch
Answer: C) Atticus Finch
6. What is the title of the first Harry Potter book by J.K. Rowling?
- A) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- B) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- C) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- D) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Answer: C) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (also known as Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
7. Who wrote “The Great Gatsby”, a novel set in the Roaring Twenties?
- A) John Steinbeck
- B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
- C) Ernest Hemingway
- D) William Faulkner
Answer: B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. Which famous detective character was created by Arthur Conan Doyle?
- A) Hercule Poirot
- B) Philip Marlowe
- C) Sherlock Holmes
- D) Sam Spade
Answer: C) Sherlock Holmes
9. “Moby-Dick” is a classic American novel by which author?
- A) Herman Melville
- B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
- C) Mark Twain
- D) Henry James
Answer: A) Herman Melville
10. What famous novel begins with the line, “Call me Ishmael”?
- A) The Old Man and the Sea
- B) Treasure Island
- C) Moby-Dick
- D) Heart of Darkness
Answer: C) Moby-Dick
11. Who wrote the “Divine Comedy”, a long Italian narrative poem describing the journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory, and Paradise?
- A) Dante Alighieri
- B) Geoffrey Chaucer
- C) Petrarch
- D) Virgil
Answer: A) Dante Alighieri
12. What is the title of the first book in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series by George R.R. Martin?
- A) A Clash of Kings
- B) A Storm of Swords
- C) A Dance with Dragons
- D) A Game of Thrones
Answer: D) A Game of Thrones
13. “Ulysses”, a modernist novel that parallels Homer’s “The Odyssey”, was written by which Irish author?
- A) James Joyce
- B) Samuel Beckett
- C) W.B. Yeats
- D) George Bernard Shaw
Answer: A) James Joyce
14. In George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” what type of animal is Napoleon?
- A) Horse
- B) Pig
- C) Dog
- D) Sheep
Answer: B) Pig
15. Who wrote the epic “War and Peace”, one of the longest novels ever written?
- A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
- B) Leo Tolstoy
- C) Anton Chekhov
- D) Vladimir Nabokov
Answer: B) Leo Tolstoy
16. “Brave New World”, a dystopian novel set in a future world of genetic engineering and conditioning, was written by:
- A) George Orwell
- B) Aldous Huxley
- C) Ray Bradbury
- D) Philip K. Dick
Answer: B) Aldous Huxley
17. In “The Catcher in the Rye”, who is the novel’s protagonist and narrator?
- A) Holden Caulfield
- B) Jay Gatsby
- C) Nick Carraway
- D) Tom Buchanan
Answer: A) Holden Caulfield
18. Which novel by Gabriel García Márquez is considered one of the most important works in the genre of magical realism?
- A) Love in the Time of Cholera
- B) One Hundred Years of Solitude
- C) Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- D) The General in His Labyrinth
Answer: B) One Hundred Years of Solitude
19. “The Odyssey”, an epic poem about the journey home of Odysseus, was written by:
- A) Virgil
- B) Homer
- C) Sophocles
- D) Aeschylus
Answer: B) Homer
20. What is the name of the fictional city where most of Charles Dickens’ novel “A Tale of Two Cities” is set?
- A) Paris and London
- B) New York and London
- C) Paris and Rome
- D) Berlin and Paris
Answer: A) Paris and London
