GK Quiz - Language & Literature
Q1. Which American
author wrote the novel "Moby-Dick", which follows the story of
Captain Ahab's pursuit of a white whale?
a) Herman Melville
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Mark Twain
Answer: a) Herman
Melville
Q2. Who wrote the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", which tells the story of a man's descent into decadence and corruption?
a) Oscar Wilde
b) James Joyce
c) Samuel Beckett
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: a) Oscar Wilde
Q3. Which French novel tells the story of Jean Valjean and his quest for redemption?
a) Madame Bovary
b) Les Miserables
c) The Hunchback of
Notre Dame
d) Germinal
Answer: b) Les
Miserables
Q4. Which language is spoken by the most people in the Middle East?
a) Arabic
b) Farsi (Persian)
c) Turkish
d) Hebrew
Answer: a) Arabic
Q5. Which of the following languages is not an official language of the United Nations?
a) English
b) Spanish
c) French
d) German
Answer: d) German
Q6. Which African author wrote the novel "Things Fall Apart", which tells the story of an Igbo warrior in Nigeria during the late 19th century?
a) Chinua Achebe
b) Wole Soyinka
c) Ngugi wa Thiong'o
d) Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie
Answer: a) Chinua Achebe
Q7. Which classic novel by Emily Bronte features the character Heathcliff?
a) Jane Eyre
b) Wuthering Heights
c) Sense and Sensibility
d) Pride and Prejudice
Answer: b) Wuthering
Heights
Q8. Who wrote the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which tells the story of the BuendÃa family in the fictional town of Macondo?
a) Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
b) Isabel Allende
c) Pablo Neruda
d) Octavio Paz
Answer: a) Gabriel
Garcia Marquez
Q9. Which language is spoken by the most people in the world as a second language?
a) English
b) French
c) Spanish
d) Mandarin Chinese
Answer: d) Mandarin
Chinese
Q10. Which classic novel features the characters Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy?
a) Wuthering Heights
b) Jane Eyre
c) Pride and Prejudice
d) Sense and Sensibility
Answer: c) Pride and
Prejudice
Q11. Who wrote the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Harper Lee
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: c) Harper Lee
Q12. Which Shakespearean tragedy features the character Macbeth?
a) Romeo and Juliet
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth
d) King Lear
Answer: c) Macbeth
Q13. Who wrote the novel "1984", which depicts a dystopian society under a totalitarian government?
a) George Orwell
b) Aldous Huxley
c) Ray Bradbury
d) Margaret Atwood
Answer: a) George Orwell
Q14. Which American author wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby"?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) John Steinbeck
d) William Faulkner
Answer: b) F. Scott
Fitzgerald
Q15. Who wrote the novel "The Catcher in the Rye", which follows the story of a teenager named Holden Caulfield?
a) J.D. Salinger
b) Kurt Vonnegut
c) Philip Roth
d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a) J.D. Salinger
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