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Q1.Where ----------the books we had bought together?

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A was
B were
C have
D has
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Correct Answer: B

Since "books" is plural, the correct verb is "were."

Q2.Who wrote "Pride and Prejudice"?

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A Charlotte Bronte
B Emily Bronte
C Jane Austen
D Virginia Woolf
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Correct Answer: C

"Pride and Prejudice" (1813) was written by Jane Austen.

Q3.Who is the author of "Hamlet"?

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A Charles Dickens
B William Shakespeare
C John Milton
D Geoffrey Chaucer
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Correct Answer: B

"Hamlet" is one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.

Q4.Who wrote "1984"?

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A Aldous Huxley
B H.G. Wells
C George Orwell
D Ray Bradbury
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Correct Answer: C

"1984" was written by George Orwell (1949).

Q5.Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?

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A Thomas Hardy
B Charles Dickens
C Oscar Wilde
D William Makepeace Thackeray
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Correct Answer: B

"A Tale of Two Cities" was written by Charles Dickens (1859).

Q6.Who wrote "Paradise Lost"?

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A William Shakespeare
B Geoffrey Chaucer
C John Milton
D Edmund Spenser
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Correct Answer: C

"Paradise Lost" (1667) was written by John Milton.

Q7.Who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea"?

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A F. Scott Fitzgerald
B William Faulkner
C Ernest Hemingway
D John Steinbeck
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Correct Answer: C

"The Old Man and the Sea" (1952) was written by Ernest Hemingway.

Q8.Allama Iqbal's "Shikwa" is written in:

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A English
B Urdu
C Persian
D Punjabi
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Correct Answer: B

"Shikwa" is written in Urdu and is part of "Bang-e-Dra".

Q9.Who wrote "Gitanjali"?

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A Mirza Ghalib
B Rabindranath Tagore
C Faiz Ahmad Faiz
D Muhammad Iqbal
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Correct Answer: B

"Gitanjali" won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for Rabindranath Tagore.

Q10.Who is known as the "Father of English Poetry"?

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A John Milton
B William Shakespeare
C Geoffrey Chaucer
D Edmund Spenser
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Correct Answer: C

Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the Father of English Poetry.

Q11.Who wrote "Brave New World"?

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A George Orwell
B Aldous Huxley
C Ray Bradbury
D H.G. Wells
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Correct Answer: B

"Brave New World" (1932) was written by Aldous Huxley.

Q12.Which book is authored by Charles Dickens?

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A Wuthering Heights
B Oliver Twist
C Jane Eyre
D Middlemarch
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Correct Answer: B

"Oliver Twist" (1837-39) was written by Charles Dickens.

Q13."Animal Farm" is a political satire by:

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A George Orwell
B Aldous Huxley
C H.G. Wells
D Jonathan Swift
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Correct Answer: A

"Animal Farm" (1945) was written by George Orwell.

Q14."The Great Gatsby" was written by:

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A Ernest Hemingway
B John Steinbeck
C F. Scott Fitzgerald
D William Faulkner
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Correct Answer: C

"The Great Gatsby" (1925) is by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Q15."To Kill a Mockingbird" is by:

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A Harper Lee
B Toni Morrison
C John Steinbeck
D Truman Capote
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Correct Answer: A

Harper Lee wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960).

Q16."The Alchemist" is written by:

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A Paulo Coelho
B Gabriel Garcia Marquez
C Umberto Eco
D Isabel Allende
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Correct Answer: A

"The Alchemist" (1988) was written by Paulo Coelho.

Q17.Iqbal's "Asrar-e-Khudi" was written in:

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A Urdu
B English
C Arabic
D Persian
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Correct Answer: D

"Asrar-e-Khudi" (Secrets of the Self) was written by Allama Iqbal in Persian.

Q18."Crime and Punishment" is written by:

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A Leo Tolstoy
B Anton Chekhov
C Fyodor Dostoevsky
D Ivan Turgenev
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Correct Answer: C

"Crime and Punishment" (1866) was written by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Q19."Gulliver's Travels" was written by:

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A Daniel Defoe
B Jonathan Swift
C Henry Fielding
D Samuel Richardson
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Correct Answer: B

"Gulliver's Travels" (1726) was written by Jonathan Swift.

Q20."Romeo and Juliet" belongs to which genre?

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A Comedy
B Tragedy
C History
D Romance
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Correct Answer: B

"Romeo and Juliet" is a tragedy by Shakespeare.