SS1 second Term literature in english past questions and answers

SS1 second Term literature in english past questions and answers

Literature in English questions for SS1 with options and answers:

Question: In the play "Julius Caesar," who utters the famous line "Et tu, Brute?"

A) Cassius

B) Mark Antony

C) Julius Caesar

D) Brutus

Answer: C) Julius Caesar

Question: Who wrote the novel "Cry, The Beloved Country"?

A) Alan Paton

B) Nelson Mandela

C) J.M. Coetzee

D) Nadine Gordimer

Answer: A) Alan Paton

Question: What is the setting of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"?

A) London

B) Paris

C) Yorkshire Moors

D) Edinburgh

Answer: C) Yorkshire Moors

Question: Which character in "The Great Gatsby" is known for his extravagant parties?

A) Nick Carraway

B) Jay Gatsby

C) Daisy Buchanan

D) Tom Buchanan

Answer: B) Jay Gatsby

Question: Who is the author of the poem "The Raven"?

A) Walt Whitman

B) Edgar Allan Poe

C) Emily Dickinson

D) Robert Frost

Answer: B) Edgar Allan Poe

Question: What is the central theme of William Golding's "The Lord of the Flies"?

A) Friendship

B) Survival

C) Adventure

D) Love

Answer: B) Survival

Question: In the play "Othello," who is Iago's wife?

A) Desdemona

B) Emilia

C) Bianca

D) Cordelia

Answer: B) Emilia

Question: Who wrote the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

B) Isabel Allende

C) Julio Cortázar

D) Mario Vargas Llosa

Answer: A) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Question: What is the name of the protagonist in George Orwell's "1984"?

A) Winston Smith

B) Big Brother

C) O'Brien

D) Julia

Answer: A) Winston Smith

Question: In J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye," what is Holden Caulfield's favorite word?

A) Phony

B) Peculiar

C) Genuine

D) Eccentric

Answer: A) Phony

Question: Who is the author of the play "A Raisin in the Sun"?

A) August Wilson

B) Lorraine Hansberry

C) Arthur Miller

D) Tennessee Williams

Answer: B) Lorraine Hansberry

Question: In the poem "Ode to a Nightingale," who wrote about "a beaker full of the warm South"?

A) John Keats

B) Percy Bysshe Shelley

C) Lord Byron

D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Answer: A) John Keats

Question: What is the title of Harper Lee's second novel, published in 2015?

A) Go Set a Watchman

B) To Kill a Mockingbird: Part Two

C) Atticus

D) Scout's Journey

Answer: A) Go Set a Watchman

Question: Who wrote the novel "The Color Purple"?

A) Toni Morrison

B) Maya Angelou

C) Alice Walker

D) Zora Neale Hurston

Answer: C) Alice Walker

Question: What is the genre of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"?

A) Gothic Horror

B) Science Fiction

C) Mystery

D) Romance

Answer: A) Gothic Horror

Question: In Shakespeare's "Hamlet," what is the name of Hamlet's uncle, who becomes king?

A) Polonius

B) Laertes

C) Claudius

D) Horatio

Answer: C) Claudius

Question: Who is the author of the poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

A) W.B. Yeats

B) T.S. Eliot

C) Ezra Pound

D) Langston Hughes

Answer: B) T.S. Eliot

Question: What is the title of Ernest Hemingway's novel set during the Spanish Civil War?

A) A Farewell to Arms

B) The Old Man and the Sea

C) For Whom the Bell Tolls

D) The Sun Also Rises

Answer: C) For Whom the Bell Tolls

Question: In the play "A Doll's House," who is the wife of Torvald Helmer?

A) Nora Helmer

B) Mrs. Linde

C) Kristine

D) Anne-Marie

Answer: A) Nora Helmer

Question: Who wrote the novel "Brave New World"?

A) Aldous Huxley

B) George Orwell

C) Ray Bradbury

D) H.G. Wells

Answer: A) Aldous Huxley