Major Authors and Works Identification MCQs 2026

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was written by

1. ASamuel Beckett✓
2. BCharles Dickens✓
3. CT.S. Eliot✓
4. DThomas Hardy✓

Murder in the Cathedral was written by

1. AWilliam Shakespeare✓
2. BGeorge Orwell✓
3. CJane Austen✓
4. DT.S. Eliot✓

The Second Coming was written by

1. AW.B. Yeats✓
2. BT.S. Eliot✓
3. CJames Joyce✓
4. DCharles Dickens✓

Sailing to Byzantium was written by

1. AGeorge Bernard Shaw✓
2. BSamuel Beckett✓
3. CJohn Milton✓
4. DW.B. Yeats✓

Ulysses was written by

1. ASamuel Beckett✓
2. BJames Joyce✓
3. CCharles Dickens✓
4. DW.B. Yeats✓

Dubliners was written by

1. AGeorge Bernard Shaw✓
2. BJames Joyce✓
3. CThomas Hardy✓
4. DT.S. Eliot✓

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

1. AJane Austen✓
2. BJames Joyce✓
3. CJohn Milton✓
4. DCharles Dickens✓

1984 was written by

1. AAldous Huxley only as joint author✓
2. BThomas Hardy✓
3. CW.B. Yeats✓
4. DGeorge Orwell✓

Animal Farm was written by

1. AGeorge Orwell✓
2. BCharles Dickens✓
3. CSamuel Beckett✓
4. DJane Austen✓

Pygmalion was written by

1. AOscar Wilde as sole credited author here✓
2. BJames Joyce✓
3. CGeorge Bernard Shaw✓
4. DJohn Milton✓

Arms and the Man was written by

1. AWilliam Shakespeare✓
2. BCharles Dickens✓
3. CGeorge Bernard Shaw✓
4. DW.B. Yeats✓

Waiting for Godot was written by

1. AJames Joyce as sole author✓
2. BGeorge Orwell✓
3. CJane Austen✓
4. DSamuel Beckett✓

The protagonist of Hamlet is

1. AMacbeth Thane of Cawdor✓
2. BKing Lear of Britain✓
3. COthello the Moor✓
4. DPrince Hamlet of Denmark✓

Professor Henry Higgins trains

1. APortia in The Merchant of Venice✓
2. BEliza Doolittle in Pygmalion✓
3. CEmma Woodhouse in Emma✓
4. DEstella in Great Expectations✓

Iago is the villain in

1. AHamlet✓
2. BOthello✓
3. CMacbeth✓
4. DRomeo and Juliet✓

Vladimir and Estragon wait in

1. AEndgame✓
2. BWaiting for Godot✓
3. CPygmalion✓
4. DArms and the Man✓

Big Brother is the oppressive symbol in

1. ABrave New World by Huxley✓
2. B1984✓
3. CAnimal Farm only without 1984✓
4. DThe Second Coming✓

Lady Macbeth is a central character in

1. AOthello✓
2. BKing Lear✓
3. CThe Tempest✓
4. DMacbeth✓

Stephen Dedalus appears in both

1. ADubliners and 1984 only✓
2. BHamlet and Macbeth✓
3. CThe Waste Land and Prufrock✓
4. DA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses✓

Hamlet was written by

1. AJohn Milton✓
2. BWilliam Shakespeare✓
3. CGeorge Bernard Shaw✓
4. DSamuel Beckett✓

Macbeth was written by

1. ACharles Dickens✓
2. BThomas Hardy✓
3. CWilliam Shakespeare✓
4. DGeorge Orwell✓

Othello was written by

1. AWilliam Shakespeare✓
2. BJane Austen✓
3. CT.S. Eliot✓
4. DSamuel Beckett✓

Tess Durbeyfield is the heroine of

1. AJude the Obscure✓
2. BThe Mayor of Casterbridge✓
3. CTess of the d'Urbervilles✓
4. DFar from the Madding Crowd✓

King Lear was written by

1. AJohn Milton✓
2. BGeorge Bernard Shaw✓
3. CWilliam Shakespeare✓
4. DJames Joyce✓

The Merchant of Venice was written by

1. ACharles Dickens✓
2. BWilliam Shakespeare✓
3. CW.B. Yeats✓
4. DGeorge Orwell✓

Romeo and Juliet was written by

1. AThomas Hardy✓
2. BSamuel Beckett✓
3. CWilliam Shakespeare✓
4. DJane Austen✓

Paradise Lost was written by

1. AWilliam Shakespeare✓
2. BGeorge Bernard Shaw✓
3. CJohn Milton✓
4. DCharles Dickens✓

Pride and Prejudice was written by

1. ACharlotte Bronte✓
2. BJane Austen✓
3. CGeorge Eliot✓
4. DVirginia Woolf✓

Sense and Sensibility was written by

1. ACharles Dickens✓
2. BJane Austen✓
3. CThomas Hardy✓
4. DGeorge Orwell✓

Emma was written by

1. AJane Austen✓
2. BMary Shelley✓
3. CSamuel Beckett✓
4. DJohn Milton✓

Great Expectations was written by

1. AThomas Hardy✓
2. BW.B. Yeats✓
3. CCharles Dickens✓
4. DGeorge Bernard Shaw✓

A Tale of Two Cities was written by

1. AJane Austen✓
2. BCharles Dickens✓
3. CJames Joyce✓
4. DSamuel Beckett✓

Oliver Twist was written by

1. ACharles Dickens✓
2. BGeorge Orwell✓
3. CJohn Milton✓
4. DT.S. Eliot✓

Leopold Bloom is the central figure in

1. ADubliners✓
2. BUlysses✓
3. CA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man✓
4. DFinnegans Wake✓

Satan as a rebel figure dominates

1. AThe Faerie Queene✓
2. BThe Canterbury Tales✓
3. CParadise Lost✓
4. DParadise Regained alone without Book I✓

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"✓

Pip is the narrator-protagonist of

1. AOliver Twist✓
2. BHard Times✓
3. CA Tale of Two Cities✓
4. DGreat Expectations✓

David Copperfield was written by

1. ACharles Dickens✓
2. BThomas Hardy✓
3. CW.B. Yeats✓
4. DSamuel Beckett✓

Miss Havisham appears in

1. AOliver Twist✓
2. BGreat Expectations✓
3. CDavid Copperfield✓
4. DBleak House✓

Mr Darcy is paired with

1. AElizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice✓
2. BEmma Woodhouse in Emma✓
3. CJane Eyre in Bronte's novel✓
4. DEstella in Great Expectations✓

Elizabeth Bennet is the heroine of

1. AEmma✓
2. BSense and Sensibility✓
3. CMansfield Park✓
4. DPride and Prejudice✓

Shylock appears in

1. AMeasure for Measure✓
2. BTwelfth Night✓
3. CThe Merchant of Venice✓
4. DAs You Like It✓

Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature in

1. A1925✓
2. B1953✓
3. C1969✓
4. D1948✓

George Bernard Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in

1. A1925✓
2. B1949 like Orwell never received it✓
3. C1922 like Eliot's Waste Land year only for Eliot later✓
4. D1969 like Beckett✓

James Joyce's Ulysses parallels which classical epic

1. AHomer's Odyssey✓
2. BVirgil's Aeneid alone✓
3. CMilton's Paradise Lost✓
4. DDante's Inferno only✓

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

1. AWessex✓
2. BYorkshire moors of Wuthering Heights only✓
3. CDublin suburbs✓
4. DOceania of 1984✓

Charles Dickens often set his fiction in

1. AWessex farmland only✓
2. BVictorian London and social reform contexts✓
3. CDublin and Trieste✓
4. Dabsurdist unnamed country roads only✓

Jane Austen's novels are primarily set in

1. AVictorian industrial Coketown✓
2. BDublin on Bloomsday✓
3. Cpost-apocalyptic London of Big Brother✓
4. Dthe English gentry and provincial society of the Regency era✓

George Orwell's real name was

1. AGeorge Gordon Byron✓
2. BThomas Stearns Eliot✓
3. CSamuel Barclay Beckett✓
4. DEric Arthur Blair✓

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre" opens

1. AThe Second Coming✓
2. BSailing to Byzantium✓
3. CThe Waste Land✓
4. DMurder in the Cathedral✓

The line "April is the cruellest month" opens

1. AThe Waste Land✓
2. BThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock✓
3. CThe Second Coming✓
4. DEaster 1916✓

Michael Henchard sells his wife in the opening of

1. AThe Mayor of Casterbridge✓
2. BTess of the d'Urbervilles✓
3. CJude the Obscure✓
4. DThe Return of the Native✓

Boxer the horse appears in

1. A1984✓
2. BHard Times✓
3. CAnimal Farm✓
4. DFar from the Madding Crowd✓

The Mayor of Casterbridge was written by

1. AJane Austen✓
2. BSamuel Beckett✓
3. CW.B. Yeats✓
4. DThomas Hardy✓

Jude the Obscure was written by

1. AThomas Hardy✓
2. BGeorge Eliot✓
3. CGeorge Orwell✓
4. DT.S. Eliot✓

Tess of the d'Urbervilles was written by

1. ACharles Dickens✓
2. BGeorge Orwell✓
3. CThomas Hardy✓
4. DGeorge Bernard Shaw✓

Hard Times was written by

1. AJane Austen✓
2. BJames Joyce✓
3. CJohn Milton✓
4. DCharles Dickens✓

Far from the Madding Crowd was written by

1. ACharles Dickens✓
2. BJames Joyce✓
3. CThomas Hardy✓
4. DJohn Milton✓

The Waste Land was written by

1. AW.B. Yeats✓
2. BJames Joyce✓
3. CGeorge Bernard Shaw✓
4. DT.S. Eliot✓