SS1 Third Term Literature In English Past Questions And Answers
20 SS1 Third Term Literature In English questions with options and answers:
Who is the author of the play “Twelfth Night”?
A) William Shakespeare
B) Christopher Marlowe
C) Ben Jonson
D) John Webster
Answer: A) William Shakespeare
In “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” what does Dorian Gray’s portrait symbolize?
A) Beauty
B) Youth
C) Sin and Decay
D) Vanity
Answer: C) Sin and Decay
What literary device is used when there is a contradiction between appearance and reality?
A) Irony
B) Hyperbole
C) Symbolism
D) Foreshadowing
Answer: A) Irony
Who wrote the play “The Bacchae”?
A) Sophocles
B) Aeschylus
C) Euripides
D) Aristophanes
Answer: C) Euripides
Which literary work explores the theme of the “double” or doppelgänger?
A) Dracula
B) Jekyll and Hyde
C) Frankenstein
D) The Turn of the Screw
Answer: B) Jekyll and Hyde
In “Great Expectations,” who is Pip’s benefactor?
A) Abel Magwitch
B) Miss Havisham
C) Joe Gargery
D) Jaggers
Answer: A) Abel Magwitch
What is the central theme of the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe?
A) Nature’s Beauty
B) Love and Loss
C) Despair and Grief
D) Mythology
Answer: C) Despair and Grief
Who wrote the novel “Things Fall Apart”?
A) Wole Soyinka
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
D) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Answer: B) Chinua Achebe
Which literary period is characterized by a focus on realism, industrialization, and social issues?
A) Romanticism
B) Victorian
C) Modernism
D) Postcolonial
Answer: B) Victorian
What is the main theme of the poem “If—” by Rudyard Kipling?
A) Nature’s Beauty
B) Patriotism and Duty
C) Love and Loss
D) Time and Decay
Answer: B) Patriotism and Duty
Who wrote the novel “The Scarlet Letter”?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Herman Melville
C) Mark Twain
D) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” who is the king of the fairies?
A) Oberon
B) Puck
C) Titania
D) Bottom
Answer: A) Oberon
What is the genre of the poem “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot?
A) Epic
B) Modernist
C) Romantic
D) Satirical
Answer: B) Modernist
Who is the author of the play “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”?
A) Arthur Miller
B) Tennessee Williams
C) Eugene O’Neill
D) Samuel Beckett
Answer: C) Eugene O’Neill
In “Heart of Darkness,” who is the protagonist and narrator of the story?
A) Mr. Kurtz
B) Marlow
C) Colonel Kurtz
D) The Manager
Answer: B) Marlow
Which Shakespearean play features the character Portia?
A) Hamlet
B) Othello
C) Julius Caesar
D) The Merchant of Venice
Answer: D) The Merchant of Venice
Who wrote the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
A) W.B. Yeats
B) Robert Frost
C) T.S. Eliot
D) Langston Hughes
Answer: C) T.S. Eliot
What is the setting of the novel “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoevsky?
A) Victorian London
B) 19th-century Paris
C) St. Petersburg, Russia
D) Renaissance Italy
Answer: C) St. Petersburg, Russia
In “The Crucible,” who is the main character accused of witchcraft?
A) Abigail Williams
B) John Proctor
C) Reverend Hale
D) Elizabeth Proctor
Answer: B) John Proctor
Which literary term refers to the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words?
A) Alliteration
B) Assonance
C) Consonance
D) Onomatopoeia
Answer: B) Assonance.
