Major Authors and Works Identification MCQs 2026

Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature in

1. A 1925 ✓
2. B 1953 ✓
3. C 1969 ✓
4. D 1948 ✓

Boxer the horse appears in

1. A 1984 ✓
2. B Hard Times ✓
3. C Animal Farm ✓
4. D Far from the Madding Crowd ✓

George Orwell's real name was

1. A George Gordon Byron ✓
2. B Thomas Stearns Eliot ✓
3. C Samuel Barclay Beckett ✓
4. D Eric Arthur Blair ✓

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre" opens

1. A The Second Coming ✓
2. B Sailing to Byzantium ✓
3. C The Waste Land ✓
4. D Murder in the Cathedral ✓

The line "April is the cruellest month" opens

1. A The Waste Land ✓
2. B The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ✓
3. C The Second Coming ✓
4. D Easter 1916 ✓

Michael Henchard sells his wife in the opening of

1. A The Mayor of Casterbridge ✓
2. B Tess of the d'Urbervilles ✓
3. C Jude the Obscure ✓
4. D The Return of the Native ✓

Tess Durbeyfield is the heroine of

1. A Jude the Obscure ✓
2. B The Mayor of Casterbridge ✓
3. C Tess of the d'Urbervilles ✓
4. D Far from the Madding Crowd ✓

Professor Henry Higgins trains

1. A Portia in The Merchant of Venice ✓
2. B Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion ✓
3. C Emma Woodhouse in Emma ✓
4. D Estella in Great Expectations ✓

Vladimir and Estragon wait in

1. A Endgame ✓
2. B Waiting for Godot ✓
3. C Pygmalion ✓
4. D Arms and the Man ✓

Hamlet was written by

1. A John Milton ✓
2. B William Shakespeare ✓
3. C George Bernard Shaw ✓
4. D Samuel Beckett ✓

Macbeth was written by

1. A Charles Dickens ✓
2. B Thomas Hardy ✓
3. C William Shakespeare ✓
4. D George Orwell ✓

Othello was written by

1. A William Shakespeare ✓
2. B Jane Austen ✓
3. C T.S. Eliot ✓
4. D Samuel Beckett ✓

King Lear was written by

1. A John Milton ✓
2. B George Bernard Shaw ✓
3. C William Shakespeare ✓
4. D James Joyce ✓

The Merchant of Venice was written by

1. A Charles Dickens ✓
2. B William Shakespeare ✓
3. C W.B. Yeats ✓
4. D George Orwell ✓

Romeo and Juliet was written by

1. A Thomas Hardy ✓
2. B Samuel Beckett ✓
3. C William Shakespeare ✓
4. D Jane Austen ✓

Paradise Lost was written by

1. A William Shakespeare ✓
2. B George Bernard Shaw ✓
3. C John Milton ✓
4. D Charles Dickens ✓

Pride and Prejudice was written by

1. A Charlotte Bronte ✓
2. B Jane Austen ✓
3. C George Eliot ✓
4. D Virginia Woolf ✓

Sense and Sensibility was written by

1. A Charles Dickens ✓
2. B Jane Austen ✓
3. C Thomas Hardy ✓
4. D George Orwell ✓

Emma was written by

1. A Jane Austen ✓
2. B Mary Shelley ✓
3. C Samuel Beckett ✓
4. D John Milton ✓

Great Expectations was written by

1. A Thomas Hardy ✓
2. B W.B. Yeats ✓
3. C Charles Dickens ✓
4. D George Bernard Shaw ✓

A Tale of Two Cities was written by

1. A Jane Austen ✓
2. B Charles Dickens ✓
3. C James Joyce ✓
4. D Samuel Beckett ✓

Oliver Twist was written by

1. A Charles Dickens ✓
2. B George Orwell ✓
3. C John Milton ✓
4. D T.S. Eliot ✓

James Joyce's Ulysses parallels which classical epic

1. A Homer's Odyssey ✓
2. B Virgil's Aeneid alone ✓
3. C Milton's Paradise Lost ✓
4. D Dante's Inferno only ✓

David Copperfield was written by

1. A Charles Dickens ✓
2. B Thomas Hardy ✓
3. C W.B. Yeats ✓
4. D Samuel Beckett ✓

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was written by

1. A Samuel Beckett ✓
2. B Charles Dickens ✓
3. C T.S. Eliot ✓
4. D Thomas Hardy ✓

Murder in the Cathedral was written by

1. A William Shakespeare ✓
2. B George Orwell ✓
3. C Jane Austen ✓
4. D T.S. Eliot ✓

The Second Coming was written by

1. A W.B. Yeats ✓
2. B T.S. Eliot ✓
3. C James Joyce ✓
4. D Charles Dickens ✓

Sailing to Byzantium was written by

1. A George Bernard Shaw ✓
2. B Samuel Beckett ✓
3. C John Milton ✓
4. D W.B. Yeats ✓

Ulysses was written by

1. A Samuel Beckett ✓
2. B James Joyce ✓
3. C Charles Dickens ✓
4. D W.B. Yeats ✓

Dubliners was written by

1. A George Bernard Shaw ✓
2. B James Joyce ✓
3. C Thomas Hardy ✓
4. D T.S. Eliot ✓

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was written by

1. A Jane Austen ✓
2. B James Joyce ✓
3. C John Milton ✓
4. D Charles Dickens ✓

1984 was written by

1. A Aldous Huxley only as joint author ✓
2. B Thomas Hardy ✓
3. C W.B. Yeats ✓
4. D George Orwell ✓

George Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in

1. A 1925 ✓
2. B 1949 like Orwell never received it ✓
3. C 1922 like Eliot's Waste Land year only for Eliot later ✓
4. D 1969 like Beckett ✓

Animal Farm was written by

1. A George Orwell ✓
2. B Charles Dickens ✓
3. C Samuel Beckett ✓
4. D Jane Austen ✓

Pygmalion was written by

1. A Oscar Wilde as sole credited author here ✓
2. B James Joyce ✓
3. C George Bernard Shaw ✓
4. D John Milton ✓

Arms and the Man was written by

1. A William Shakespeare ✓
2. B Charles Dickens ✓
3. C George Bernard Shaw ✓
4. D W.B. Yeats ✓

Thomas Hardy's fiction is chiefly associated with the region he called

1. A Wessex ✓
2. B Yorkshire moors of Wuthering Heights only ✓
3. C Dublin suburbs ✓
4. D Oceania of 1984 ✓

Waiting for Godot was written by

1. A James Joyce as sole author ✓
2. B George Orwell ✓
3. C Jane Austen ✓
4. D Samuel Beckett ✓

The protagonist of Hamlet is

1. A Macbeth Thane of Cawdor ✓
2. B King Lear of Britain ✓
3. C Othello the Moor ✓
4. D Prince Hamlet of Denmark ✓

Lady Macbeth is a central character in

1. A Othello ✓
2. B King Lear ✓
3. C The Tempest ✓
4. D Macbeth ✓

Iago is the villain in

1. A Hamlet ✓
2. B Othello ✓
3. C Macbeth ✓
4. D Romeo and Juliet ✓

Shylock appears in

1. A Measure for Measure ✓
2. B Twelfth Night ✓
3. C The Merchant of Venice ✓
4. D As You Like It ✓

Elizabeth Bennet is the heroine of

1. A Emma ✓
2. B Sense and Sensibility ✓
3. C Mansfield Park ✓
4. D Pride and Prejudice ✓

Mr Darcy is paired with

1. A Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice ✓
2. B Emma Woodhouse in Emma ✓
3. C Jane Eyre in Bronte's novel ✓
4. D Estella in Great Expectations ✓

Miss Havisham appears in

1. A Oliver Twist ✓
2. B Great Expectations ✓
3. C David Copperfield ✓
4. D Bleak House ✓

Pip is the narrator-protagonist of

1. A Oliver Twist ✓
2. B Hard Times ✓
3. C A Tale of Two Cities ✓
4. D Great Expectations ✓

Oliver Twist is chiefly associated with the request

1. A "It was the best of times" ✓
2. B "Call me Ishmael" ✓
3. C "To be or not to be" ✓
4. D "Please, sir, I want some more" ✓

Satan as a rebel figure dominates

1. A The Faerie Queene ✓
2. B The Canterbury Tales ✓
3. C Paradise Lost ✓
4. D Paradise Regained alone without Book I ✓

Leopold Bloom is the central figure in

1. A Dubliners ✓
2. B Ulysses ✓
3. C A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ✓
4. D Finnegans Wake ✓

Stephen Dedalus appears in both

1. A Dubliners and 1984 only ✓
2. B Hamlet and Macbeth ✓
3. C The Waste Land and Prufrock ✓
4. D A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses ✓

Big Brother is the oppressive symbol in

1. A Brave New World by Huxley ✓
2. B 1984 ✓
3. C Animal Farm only without 1984 ✓
4. D The Second Coming ✓

Charles Dickens often set his fiction in

1. A Wessex farmland only ✓
2. B Victorian London and social reform contexts ✓
3. C Dublin and Trieste ✓
4. D absurdist unnamed country roads only ✓

Jane Austen's novels are primarily set in

1. A Victorian industrial Coketown ✓
2. B Dublin on Bloomsday ✓
3. C post-apocalyptic London of Big Brother ✓
4. D the English gentry and provincial society of the Regency era ✓

Tess of the d'Urbervilles was written by

1. A Charles Dickens ✓
2. B George Orwell ✓
3. C Thomas Hardy ✓
4. D George Bernard Shaw ✓

The Waste Land was written by

1. A W.B. Yeats ✓
2. B James Joyce ✓
3. C George Bernard Shaw ✓
4. D T.S. Eliot ✓

Jude the Obscure was written by

1. A Thomas Hardy ✓
2. B George Eliot ✓
3. C George Orwell ✓
4. D T.S. Eliot ✓

Far from the Madding Crowd was written by

1. A Charles Dickens ✓
2. B James Joyce ✓
3. C Thomas Hardy ✓
4. D John Milton ✓

The Mayor of Casterbridge was written by

1. A Jane Austen ✓
2. B Samuel Beckett ✓
3. C W.B. Yeats ✓
4. D Thomas Hardy ✓

Hard Times was written by

1. A Jane Austen ✓
2. B James Joyce ✓
3. C John Milton ✓
4. D Charles Dickens ✓