1. Who is the author of the play Romeo and Juliet?
A) Charles Dickens
B) William Shakespeare
C) Mark Twain
D) Jane Austen
2. Which novel features the characters Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy?
A) Wuthering Heights
B) Jane Eyre
C) Pride and Prejudice
D) Great Expectations
3. What is the name of the hobbit who carries the One Ring in The Lord of the Rings?
A) Bilbo Baggins
B) Frodo Baggins
C) Samwise Gamgee
D) Merry Brandybuck
4. Who wrote the epic poem The Odyssey?
A) Homer
B) Virgil
C) Sophocles
D) Plato
5. Which book tells the story of a young girl named Scout and her father, Atticus Finch?
A) The Grapes of Wrath
B) To Kill a Mockingbird
C) Of Mice and Men
D) The Catcher in the Rye
6. In George Orwells 1984, what is the name of the totalitarian leader figure?
A) Big Brother
B) The Leader
C) OBrien
D) Goldstein
7. Who wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone?
A) J.R.R. Tolkien
B) Suzanne Collins
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Stephenie Meyer
8. Which of the following is NOT a type of literary genre?
A) Poetry
B) Prose
C) Drama
D) Geometry
9. What is the term for a story that has a hidden meaning or message, often using symbols?
A) Biography
B) Allegory
C) Autobiography
D) Sonnet
10. Which famous playwright wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear?
A) Christopher Marlowe
B) Oscar Wilde
C) William Shakespeare
D) Arthur Miller
11. Who is the main character in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
A) Tom Sawyer
B) Huckleberry Finn
C) Jim
D) Injun Joe
12. What do you call a poem consisting of 14 lines, usually with a specific rhyme scheme?
A) Haiku
B) Epic
C) Sonnet
D) Ballad
13. Which novel is set during the French Revolution and begins with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”?
A) Les Misrables
B) A Tale of Two Cities
C) The Three Musketeers
D) The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
14. Who wrote The Little Prince?
A) Antoine de Saint-Exupry
B) Lewis Carroll
C) Roald Dahl
D) Hans Christian Andersen
15. In literature, what is the word for the time and place where a story happens?
A) Plot
B) Setting
C) Theme
D) Conflict
16. Which author wrote The Great Gatsby?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) John Steinbeck
D) William Faulkner
17. What fairy tale character falls asleep for one hundred years?
A) Cinderella
B) Snow White
C) Sleeping Beauty
D) Rapunzel
18. Which book series is written by Suzanne Collins and features a dystopian society where children fight for survival?
A) Divergent
B) The Hunger Games
C) Maze Runner
D) Percy Jackson
19. What is the repetition of the same beginning sound in words called (e.g., “Peter Piper picked a peck”)?
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Alliteration
D) Personification
20. Who wrote the famous play Death of a Salesman?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Arthur Miller
C) Henrik Ibsen
D) Anton Chekhov