June 9, 2025

Test Your Knowledge of Classic Literature: 10 Challenging Questions to Explore Timeless Works and Authors

Questions

  1. Who is the author of the novel “Pride and Prejudice”? a) Charlotte Brontë
    b) Jane Austen
    c) Emily Dickinson
    d) Mary Shelley
  2. In which novel does the character Atticus Finch appear? a) The Great Gatsby
    b) To Kill a Mockingbird
    c) Moby-Dick
    d) Crime and Punishment
  3. “Moby-Dick” was written by which American author? a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
    b) Herman Melville
    c) Edgar Allan Poe
    d) Walt Whitman
  4. Which of the following works was written by William Shakespeare? a) The Odyssey
    b) Hamlet
    c) The Canterbury Tales
    d) Don Quixote
  5. “The Brothers Karamazov” is a famous novel by which Russian author? a) Leo Tolstoy
    b) Fyodor Dostoevsky
    c) Anton Chekhov
    d) Ivan Turgenev
  6. Which novel begins with the line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”? a) Great Expectations
    b) War and Peace
    c) A Tale of Two Cities
    d) Les Misérables
  7. Who wrote the epic poem “The Iliad”? a) Homer
    b) Virgil
    c) Sophocles
    d) Aeschylus
  8. “Wuthering Heights” is a novel by which author? a) Charlotte Brontë
    b) Emily Brontë
    c) Jane Austen
    d) Elizabeth Gaskell
  9. Which classic novel features the character Jay Gatsby? a) The Sun Also Rises
    b) The Great Gatsby
    c) Catch-22
    d) Lord of the Flies
  10. “Madame Bovary” was written by which French author? a) Gustave Flaubert
    b) Honoré de Balzac
    c) Marcel Proust
    d) Albert Camus

Answers:

  1. b) Jane Austen
  2. b) To Kill a Mockingbird
  3. b) Herman Melville
  4. b) Hamlet
  5. b) Fyodor Dostoevsky
  6. c) A Tale of Two Cities
  7. a) Homer
  8. b) Emily Brontë
  9. b) The Great Gatsby
  10. a) Gustave Flaubert