Q 01/05

Which Jane Austen novel features Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy?

A) Mansfield Park

B) Emma

C) Sense and Sensibility

D) Pride and Prejudice

Answer · why

D) Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice was published in January 1813; its opening line about a single man in possession of a good fortune is among the most quoted in Eng...

Q 02/05

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, which character is Polonius's daughter and loves the prince?

A) Lady Macbeth

B) Ophelia

C) Desdemona

D) Cordelia

Answer · why

B) Ophelia

Ophelia is a prominent character in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet,' whose tragic arc sees her driven to madness and ultimately drowning.

Q 03/05

Which 1932 dystopian novel is set in a World State where citizens are engineered into a social hierarchy?

A) 1984

B) Fahrenheit 451

C) Brave New World

D) Animal Farm

Answer · why

C) Brave New World

Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World' explores a society that sacrifices individual freedom and human values for manufactured happiness and stability thro...

Q 04/05

Who wrote 'The Aeneid,' the epic of Aeneas's journey after the fall of Troy?

A) Virgil

B) Ovid

C) Dante Alighieri

D) Homer

Answer · why

A) Virgil

Virgil, a Roman poet, wrote 'The Aeneid' between 30 and 19 BC, an epic that establishes a founding myth for Rome and glorifies its principles.

Q 05/05

Which Russian author wrote 'Crime and Punishment', about Rodion Raskolnikov?

A) Fyodor Dostoevsky

B) Anton Chekhov

C) Leo Tolstoy

D) Ivan Turgenev

Answer · why

A) Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' is a psychological novel that delves into the mental anguish and moral struggles of a former student who co...