Languages & Literature Quiz

Question 1

Who wrote the novel "Pride and Prejudice"?

Accepted Answer

Jane Austen

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Charlotte Brontë

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Emily Dickinson

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Virginia Woolf

Question 2

Which language is the most spoken in the world by native speakers?

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Mandarin Chinese

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English

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Spanish

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Hindi

Question 3

What is the name of the epic poem attributed to Homer about the Trojan War?

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The Iliad

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The Odyssey

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Aeneid

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Beowulf

Question 4

Which literary genre focuses on magical elements and imaginary worlds?

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Fantasy

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Realism

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Historical Fiction

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Satire

Question 5

What is the term for a word that sounds like the noise it describes, like "buzz"?

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Onomatopoeia

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Metaphor

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Alliteration

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Simile

Question 6

Which Russian author wrote "Crime and Punishment"?

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Leo Tolstoy

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Anton Chekhov

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Vladimir Nabokov

Question 7

What is the official language of Brazil?

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Portuguese

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Spanish

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French

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Italian

Question 8

Who is the author of the "Harry Potter" series?

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J.K. Rowling

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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C.S. Lewis

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Philip Pullman

Question 9

What is the name of the oldest known written language, dating back to 3000 BCE?

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Sumerian

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Latin

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Greek

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Hebrew

Question 10

Which play by William Shakespeare features the character Hamlet?

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Hamlet

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Macbeth

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Othello

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King Lear

Question 11

Which language uses the Cyrillic alphabet?

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Russian

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Arabic

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Japanese

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Thai

Question 12

What is the term for a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme?

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Sonnet

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Haiku

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Ode

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Limerick

Question 13

Which American author wrote "The Great Gatsby"?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Ernest Hemingway

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John Steinbeck

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Mark Twain

Question 14

What is the sacred text of Hinduism, written in Sanskrit?

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Bhagavad Gita

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Quran

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Talmud

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Tripitaka

Question 15

Which language is known for its tonal system, with five distinct tones?

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Vietnamese

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Korean

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Swahili

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German

Question 16

Who wrote the dystopian novel "1984"?

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George Orwell

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Aldous Huxley

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Ray Bradbury

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Margaret Atwood

Question 17

What is the term for the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a phrase?

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Alliteration

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Assonance

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Consonance

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Rhyme

Question 18

Which Nigerian author wrote "Things Fall Apart"?

Accepted Answer

Chinua Achebe

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Wole Soyinka

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Ben Okri

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Question 19

Which language family includes Spanish, French, and Italian?

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Romance

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Germanic

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Slavic

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Sino-Tibetan

Question 20

What is the name of the Japanese poetic form with a 5-7-5 syllable structure?

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Haiku

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Tanka

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Renga

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Senryu

Question 21

Which novel by Charlotte Brontë features the character Jane Eyre?

Accepted Answer

Jane Eyre

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Wuthering Heights

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Shirley

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Villette

Question 22

Which language is the official language of Egypt?

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Arabic

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Berber

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Coptic

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French

Question 23

Who wrote the play "A Streetcar Named Desire"?

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Tennessee Williams

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Arthur Miller

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Eugene O’Neill

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Edward Albee

Question 24

What is the term for a story that uses symbols to convey a deeper meaning?

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Allegory

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Fable

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Parable

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Myth

Question 25

Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for "Midnight’s Children"?

Accepted Answer

Salman Rushdie

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Arundhati Roy

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Vikram Seth

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R.K. Narayan

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