SS1 third Term literature in english past questions and answers

SS1 third Term literature in english past questions and answers

Here they are;

Question: What is the setting of Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" stories?

A) Paris

B) London

C) New York

D) Rome

Answer: B) London

Question: In the play "Twelfth Night," who is Viola disguised as for most of the play?

A) Olivia

B) Maria

C) Cesario

D) Sir Toby Belch

Answer: C) Cesario

Question: Who is the author of the poem "The Waste Land"?

A) W.H. Auden

B) Ezra Pound

C) T.S. Eliot

D) Langston Hughes

Answer: C) T.S. Eliot

Question: What is the title of George Orwell's novella about a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer?

A) Animal Rebellion

B) Animal Farm

C) Animal Uprising

D) Animal Revolution

Answer: B) Animal Farm

Question: Who wrote the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?

A) Zora Neale Hurston

B) Toni Morrison

C) Maya Angelou

D) Alice Walker

Answer: A) Zora Neale Hurston

Question: In the play "The Importance of Being Earnest," what is Jack Worthing's fictional alter ego?

A) Algernon Moncrieff

B) John Bunbury

C) Lady Bracknell

D) Gwendolen Fairfax

Answer: B) John Bunbury

Question: Who is the author of the novel "The Grapes of Wrath"?

A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) John Steinbeck

C) Ernest Hemingway

D) William Faulkner

Answer: B) John Steinbeck

Question: What is the central theme of William Wordsworth's poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"?

A) Nature and its Influence

B) Love and Betrayal

C) Industrialization

D) Political Revolution

Answer: A) Nature and its Influence

Question: In Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," who is the mischievous fairy king?

A) Oberon

B) Titania

C) Puck

D) Ariel

Answer: A) Oberon

Question: Who wrote the novel "The Canterbury Tales"?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer

B) William Langland

C) John Milton

D) Thomas Malory

Answer: A) Geoffrey Chaucer

Question: In the novel "The Scarlet Letter," what is the protagonist Hester Prynne forced to wear as a symbol of her adultery?

A) Red Rose

B) Black Veil

C) Scarlet Letter A

D) White Feather

Answer: C) Scarlet Letter A

Question: Who wrote the play "Long Day's Journey Into Night"?

A) Tennessee Williams

B) Eugene O'Neill

C) Arthur Miller

D) Lorraine Hansberry

Answer: B) Eugene O'Neill

Question: What is the title of Salman Rushdie's novel that explores the history of India and the character Saleem Sinai?

A) Midnight's Children

B) The Satanic Verses

C) The Moor's Last Sigh

D) The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Answer: A) Midnight's Children

Question: In Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," who is the sensible sister?

A) Elinor Dashwood

B) Marianne Dashwood

C) Margaret Dashwood

D) Mrs. Dashwood

Answer: A) Elinor Dashwood

Question: Who wrote the novel "Things Fall Apart"?

A) Wole Soyinka

B) Chinua Achebe

C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

D) Buchi Emecheta

Answer: B) Chinua Achebe

Question: What is the title of J.K. Rowling's first novel in the Harry Potter series?

A) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

B) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

C) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

D) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Answer: B) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Question: Who is the author of the poem "If—"?

A) Rudyard Kipling

B) Robert Frost

C) Langston Hughes

D) Emily Dickinson

Answer: A) Rudyard Kipling

Question: In the play "The Merchant of Venice," who is known for the famous "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech?

A) Shylock

B) Antonio

C) Portia

D) Bassanio

Answer: A) Shylock

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: Who wrote the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?

A) Oscar Wilde

B) Bram Stoker

C) Mary Shelley

D) Emily Brontë

Answer: A) Oscar Wilde