Literature Questions and Answers Set 2

  World Literature Questions and Answers

Question 1. ‘The War of The World’s’ is a famous work of which author?

Answer. H.G. Wells

Harry Potter Series

Question 2. How many novels combine the 'Harry Potter' series collection?

Answer. 7

Question 3. What is the book ‘Lord of the Flies’ about?

Answer. Schoolboys on the desert island

Question 4. How many acts are in Romeo and Juliet?

Answer. 5

Question 5. Who is the youngest literature laureate to win Nobel Prize?

Answer. Rudyard Kipling

Question 6. 'Rites of Passage' is a novel written by?

Answer. William Golding

Question 7. Name That Poet: Who wrote the Beat classic “Howl”?

Answer. Allen Ginsberg

Question 8. Who was the best selling fiction author of the 20th century?

Answer. J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

Question 9. From which country the famous poet Pablo Neruda belongs?

Answer. Chile

Question 10. Which is the first Harry Potter book?

Answer. HP and the Philosopher’s Stone

Question 11.True or False: 'Agatha Christie' is a pen name.

Answer. True

Question 12. 'The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories' , 'Nights at the Circus' and 'Wise Children' are notable works of which British writer?

Answer. Angela Carter

Question 13. Which book win the first Man Booker Prize?

Answer. Sometimes to Answer For

Question 14. Who is the author of the classic masterpiece 'Anna Karenina'?

Answer. Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

Question 15. Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere is set in an underground world of which city?

Answer. London Below

Question 16. 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and 'The Adventures of the Tom Sawyer' are notable work by which American writer?

Answer. Mark Twain

Question 17. In the book 'The Lord of the Rings ', who or what is Bilbo?

Answer. Hobbit

Question 18.Who is the hero of Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series?

Answer. Arthur Dent

Question 19. In the children's book 'The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle', which kind of animal is Tiggy Winkle ?

Answer. Hedgehog

Question 20. Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize?

Answer. The Luminaries

Question 21. 'Being Freddie' is the autobiography of which sportsman?

Answer. Andrew Flintoff

Question 22. The Girl with the Dragoon Tattoo was originally published in which language?

Answer. Swedish

Question 23. How many novels in total did the British writer Roald Dahl complete?

Answer. 19

Roald Dahl

Question 24. Who wrote the poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'?

Answer. Lord Alfred Tennyson

Question 25. Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two characters of which Children’s book?

Answer. Alice in Wonderland

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Literature Questions and Answers Set 1

Indian Literature Quiz Set-1

Literature books

1. In which year Rabindranath Tagore won nobel prize in literature?

Answer 👉 1913

2. "Wings of Fire" is an autobiography of?

Answer 👉 A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

3. The story in the book "God of Small Things" is based on which state?

Answer 👉 Kerala

4. Total number of poem in the english version of the "Gitanjali"?

Answer 👉 103

5. Who wrote the book "Panchatantra"?

Answer 👉 Vishnu Sharma

6. Who is the first woman to receive Sahitya Akademi Award?

Answer 👉 Amrita Pritam

7. Who was the written of the book "Cookie"?

Answer 👉 Mulk Raj Anand

8. For which book Salman Rushdie win the Booker Prize?

Answer 👉 Midnight's Children

9. Who is the written of the book "Devdas"?

Answer 👉 Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

10. Who is the first to translate the "Mahabharata" into English?

Answer 👉 K.M. Ganguli

11. Who wrote the book "We the People"?

Answer 👉 Nani Palkhivala

12. Who wrote the National Anthem of Bangladesh?

Answer 👉 Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

13. Who was the first receipient of Saraswati Samman Award?

Answer 👉 Harivansh Rai Bachchan

14. Who is the author of the book "Hajar Churashir Maa"?

Answer 👉 Mahaswata Devi

15. Who is the written of the book "A Suitable Boy"?

Answer 👉 Vikram Seth

16. The last book authored by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam?

Answer 👉 Advantage India

17. Which indian wins the first Pulitzer Prize?

Answer 👉 Gobind Behari Lal

18. Who is the written of the book "Train to Pakistan"?

Answer 👉 Khushwanti Singh

19. "Lone Fox Dancing" is the autobiography of which indian writer?

Answer 👉 Ruskin Bond

20. Who is the author of the book "The Shadow Lines"?

Answer 👉 Amitav Ghosh

21. Which bengali poet is also known as "Bidrohi Kobi"(Robel Poet)?

Answer 👉 Kazi Nazrul Islam

22. Who wrote the book "Wings of Fire"?

Answer 👉 Abul Kalam Azad

23. Which one is the first nobel of Chetan Bhagat?

Answer 👉 Five Point Someone

24. Who written the nobel in english "Rajmohan's Wife"?

Answer 👉 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

25. Kiran Desai won the Booker Prize for the book?

Answer 👉 The Inheritance of Loss

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