World Literature MCQs 2026
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- Q1medium
Which novel is a satire set on a farm
💡 Explanation:George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is a satirical allegory about the Russian Revolution.
- Q2easy
Which novel features the character Jay Gatsby
💡 Explanation:F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" features Jay Gatsby as the protagonist.
- Q3medium
Who wrote "Wuthering Heights"
💡 Explanation:Emily Bronte wrote "Wuthering Heights," a classic of English literature.
- Q4medium
Who wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
💡 Explanation:Mark Twain wrote "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in 1884.
- Q5hard
Which author wrote "The Red Badge of Courage"
💡 Explanation:Stephen Crane wrote "The Red Badge of Courage" about the American Civil War.
- Q6medium
Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"
💡 Explanation:Geoffrey Chaucer wrote "The Canterbury Tales" in Middle English during the 14th century.
- Q7hard
Which author wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
💡 Explanation:Gabriel García Márquez wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude," a masterpiece of magical realism.
- Q8hard
Who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost"
💡 Explanation:John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost," the epic poem about Adam and Eve's fall from grace.
- Q9medium
Who wrote "The Call of the Wild"
💡 Explanation:Jack London wrote "The Call of the Wild," a novel about a dog named Buck.
- Q10medium
Which novel features the character Raskolnikov
💡 Explanation:Raskolnikov is the protagonist of Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment."
- Q11medium
Who wrote "Anna Karenina"
💡 Explanation:Leo Tolstoy wrote "Anna Karenina," a classic of Russian literature.
- Q12hard
Who wrote "The Portrait of a Lady"
💡 Explanation:Henry James wrote "The Portrait of a Lady" in 1881.
- Q13hard
Which author wrote "The Sun Also Rises"
💡 Explanation:Ernest Hemingway wrote "The Sun Also Rises" in 1926.
- Q14medium
Which novel is a dystopian classic by Aldous Huxley
💡 Explanation:Aldous Huxley wrote "Brave New World" in 1932.
- Q15hard
Who wrote "The Sound and the Fury"
💡 Explanation:William Faulkner wrote "The Sound and the Fury" in 1929.
- Q16medium
Which author wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"
💡 Explanation:John Steinbeck wrote "The Grapes of Wrath," a novel about the Dust Bowl, in 1939.
- Q17medium
Who wrote "Great Expectations"
💡 Explanation:Charles Dickens wrote "Great Expectations" in 1861.
- Q18medium
Who wrote the epic poem "The Iliad"
💡 Explanation:Homer wrote "The Iliad," an epic poem about the Trojan War.
- Q19hard
Which novel is set in the town of Maycomb, Alabama
💡 Explanation:Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in Maycomb, Alabama.
- Q20medium
Which author wrote "The Old Man and the Sea"
💡 Explanation:Ernest Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea," winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Q21medium
Who wrote "Crime and Punishment"
💡 Explanation:Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote "Crime and Punishment" in 1866.
- Q22medium
Which author wrote "The Scarlet Letter"
💡 Explanation:Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The Scarlet Letter" in 1850.
- Q23hard
Which novel is set during the Russian Revolution
💡 Explanation:Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" is set during the Russian Revolution.
- Q24medium
Which author wrote "Frankenstein"
💡 Explanation:Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" in 1818, often considered the first science fiction novel.
- Q25medium
Which novel begins with "Call me Ishmael"
💡 Explanation:Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" begins with the famous line "Call me Ishmael."
- Q26easy
Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"
💡 Explanation:Jane Austen wrote "Pride and Prejudice," published in 1813.
- Q27easy
Who wrote "Hamlet"
💡 Explanation:William Shakespeare wrote "Hamlet," one of the most famous plays in English literature.
- Q28medium
Which author wrote "The Great Gatsby"
💡 Explanation:F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" in 1925.
- Q29medium
Who wrote "1984"
💡 Explanation:George Orwell wrote "1984," a dystopian novel published in 1949.
- Q30medium
Which novel features the character Atticus Finch
💡 Explanation:Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" features Atticus Finch as a central character.
- Q31hard
Which author wrote "The God of Small Things"
💡 Explanation:Arundhati Roy wrote "The God of Small Things," winning the Booker Prize.
- Q32hard
Which novel is set in a Japanese internment camp
💡 Explanation:Joy Kogawa's "Obasan" is set in a Japanese internment camp in Canada during WWII.
- Q33medium
Who wrote "The Catcher in the Rye"
💡 Explanation:J.D. Salinger wrote "The Catcher in the Rye" in 1951.
- Q34hard
Which novel is set on a plantation in the American South
💡 Explanation:Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is set on a Southern plantation.
- Q35hard
Who wrote "The House of the Seven Gables"
💡 Explanation:Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The House of the Seven Gables" in 1851.
- Q36hard
Which author wrote "The Bone People"
💡 Explanation:Keri Hulme wrote "The Bone People," winning the Booker Prize.
- Q37hard
Who wrote "The Remains of the Day"
💡 Explanation:Kazuo Ishiguro wrote "The Remains of the Day" in 1989.
- Q38hard
Who wrote "Midnight's Children"
💡 Explanation:Salman Rushdie wrote "Midnight's Children," winning the Booker Prize.
- Q39hard
Who wrote "The Plague"
💡 Explanation:Albert Camus wrote "The Plague" in 1947.
- Q40medium
Which author wrote "The Little Prince"
💡 Explanation:Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote "The Little Prince" in 1943.
- Q41hard
Which novel is set on a Caribbean island
💡 Explanation:Jean Rhys wrote "Wide Sargasso Sea," set in Jamaica, a prequel to Jane Eyre.
- Q42hard
Which novel features the character Howard Roark
💡 Explanation:Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" features the character Howard Roark.
- Q43hard
Which novel is a classic of Norwegian literature
💡 Explanation:Knut Hamsun wrote "Growth of the Soil," a Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novel.
- Q44easy
Which author wrote "The Cat in the Hat"
💡 Explanation:Dr. Seuss wrote "The Cat in the Hat" in 1957.
- Q45hard
Who wrote "Siddhartha"
💡 Explanation:Hermann Hesse wrote "Siddhartha" in 1922.
- Q46hard
Who wrote "The Color Purple"
💡 Explanation:Alice Walker wrote "The Color Purple" in 1982.
- Q47medium
Which novel features the character Hercule Poirot
💡 Explanation:Hercule Poirot appears in many Agatha Christie novels, including these.
- Q48hard
Who wrote "Far from the Madding Crowd"
💡 Explanation:Thomas Hardy wrote "Far from the Madding Crowd" in 1874.
- Q49hard
Who wrote "The Quiet American"
💡 Explanation:Graham Greene wrote "The Quiet American" in 1955.
- Q50hard
Which author wrote "The Metamorphosis"
💡 Explanation:Franz Kafka wrote "The Metamorphosis" in 1915.
- Q51hard
Who wrote "The Age of Innocence"
💡 Explanation:Edith Wharton wrote "The Age of Innocence" in 1920.
- Q52hard
Which author wrote "The Importance of Being Earnest"
💡 Explanation:Oscar Wilde wrote "The Importance of Being Earnest" in 1895.
- Q53easy
Who wrote "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
💡 Explanation:Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories in the late 19th century.
- Q54hard
Which author wrote "The Bell Jar"
💡 Explanation:Sylvia Plath wrote "The Bell Jar" in 1963.
- Q55easy
Which novel features the character Ebenezer Scrooge
💡 Explanation:Ebenezer Scrooge appears in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
- Q56hard
Who wrote "Mrs. Dalloway"
💡 Explanation:Virginia Woolf wrote "Mrs. Dalloway" in 1925.
- Q57medium
Who wrote the poem "The Raven"
💡 Explanation:Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Raven" in 1845.
- Q58hard
Which author wrote "The African Queen"
💡 Explanation:C.S. Forester wrote "The African Queen" in 1935.
- Q59medium
Which novel is set in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s
💡 Explanation:John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" is set during the Dust Bowl.
- Q60medium
Who wrote "The Three Musketeers"
💡 Explanation:Alexandre Dumas wrote "The Three Musketeers" in 1844.
- Q61hard
Which author wrote "Gone with the Wind"
💡 Explanation:Margaret Mitchell wrote "Gone with the Wind," published in 1936.
- Q62hard
Who wrote "The Jungle"
💡 Explanation:Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle," exposing the meatpacking industry.
- Q63medium
Which novel is set during the French Revolution
💡 Explanation:Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" is set during the French Revolution.
- Q64easy
Which novel features the character Harry Potter
💡 Explanation:J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" introduced the character Harry Potter.
- Q65medium
Who wrote "The Odyssey"
💡 Explanation:Homer wrote "The Odyssey," the epic of Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War.
- Q66medium
Who wrote "The Chronicles of Narnia"
💡 Explanation:C.S. Lewis wrote "The Chronicles of Narnia," a series of seven children's fantasy novels.
- Q67medium
Which author wrote "Little Women"
💡 Explanation:Louisa May Alcott wrote "Little Women" in 1868.
- Q68easy
Which author wrote "The Lord of the Rings"
💡 Explanation:J.R.R. Tolkien wrote "The Lord of the Rings," published in 1954-1955.
- Q69medium
Who wrote "Oliver Twist"
💡 Explanation:Charles Dickens wrote "Oliver Twist," a novel about a young orphan in London.
- Q70hard
Who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
💡 Explanation:T.S. Eliot wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in 1915.
- Q71hard
Who wrote "The Brothers Karamazov"
💡 Explanation:Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote "The Brothers Karamazov" in 1880.
- Q72hard
Who wrote "Heart of Darkness"
💡 Explanation:Joseph Conrad wrote "Heart of Darkness" in 1899, a novella about colonialism.
- Q73hard
Which author wrote "The Stranger"
💡 Explanation:Albert Camus wrote "The Stranger" in 1942.
- Q74hard
Which author wrote "A Passage to India"
💡 Explanation:E.M. Forster wrote "A Passage to India," a novel about colonialism in India.
- Q75medium
Who wrote "The Count of Monte Cristo"
💡 Explanation:Alexandre Dumas wrote "The Count of Monte Cristo" in 1844.
- Q76medium
Which novel features the character Jean Valjean
💡 Explanation:Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables."
- Q77hard
Who wrote "Madame Bovary"
💡 Explanation:Gustave Flaubert wrote "Madame Bovary," a groundbreaking realist novel.
- Q78medium
Who wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
💡 Explanation:Oscar Wilde wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in 1890.
- Q79medium
Which author wrote "Les Misérables"
💡 Explanation:Victor Hugo wrote "Les Misérables," one of the greatest French novels of the 19th century.
- Q80medium
Which novel is set in a dystopian future where books are banned
💡 Explanation:Ray Bradbury wrote "Fahrenheit 451," where books are banned and burned.
- Q81easy
Who wrote "The Hobbit"
💡 Explanation:J.R.R. Tolkien wrote "The Hobbit" in 1937 as a children's fantasy novel.
- Q82easy
Which novel features the character Holden Caulfield
💡 Explanation:Holden Caulfield is the protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye."
- Q83hard
Which author wrote "A Suitable Boy"
💡 Explanation:Vikram Seth wrote "A Suitable Boy," one of the longest novels in English literature.
- Q84hard
Who wrote "The Vegetarian"
💡 Explanation:Han Kang wrote "The Vegetarian," winning the Man Booker International Prize.
- Q85hard
Which novel is a classic of Chilean literature
💡 Explanation:Isabel Allende wrote "The House of the Spirits," set in Chile.
- Q86hard
Who wrote "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
💡 Explanation:Mohsin Hamid wrote "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" in 2007.
- Q87hard
Which author wrote "The Kite Runner"
💡 Explanation:Khaled Hosseini wrote "The Kite Runner" in 2003.
- Q88easy
Which novel features the character Othello
💡 Explanation:Shakespeare's play "Othello" features the character Othello.
- Q89hard
Who wrote "My Name Is Red"
💡 Explanation:Orhan Pamuk wrote "My Name Is Red," winning the Nobel Prize.
- Q90hard
Who wrote "The Sea, the Sea"
💡 Explanation:Iris Murdoch wrote "The Sea, the Sea," winning the Booker Prize.
- Q91easy
Which novel features the character Frankenstein
💡 Explanation:Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" features the character Victor Frankenstein and his creation.