SS2 Second Term Literature in English Past Questions And Answers

SS2 Literature in English questions with options and answers:

 

Question: In Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” which family does Romeo belong to?

 

A) Montague

B) Capulet

C) Verona

D) Medici

Answer: A) Montague

Question: Who wrote the novel “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”?

 

A) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

B) Leo Tolstoy

C) Fyodor Dostoevsky

D) Anton Chekhov

Answer: A) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Question: What is the central theme of Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman”?

 

A) Racism

B) Coming of Age

C) War and Peace

D) Family Dynamics

Answer: A) Racism

Question: Who is the main character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”?

 

A) Jay Gatsby

B) Daisy Buchanan

C) Nick Carraway

D) Tom Buchanan

Answer: A) Jay Gatsby

Question: Which literary movement is characterized by a focus on the inner thoughts and emotions of characters?

 

A) Romanticism

B) Realism

C) Naturalism

D) Modernism

Answer: D) Modernism

Question: In Achebe’s “Arrow of God,” who is the central character and the chief priest of Ulu?

 

A) Okonkwo

B) Ezeulu

C) Nwoye

D) Obierika

Answer: B) Ezeulu

Question: What is the literary term for a reference to another work of literature, person, or event?

 

A) Symbolism

B) Allusion

C) Foreshadowing

D) Flashback

Answer: B) Allusion

Question: Who wrote the play “A Doll’s House”?

 

A) Henrik Ibsen

B) Anton Chekhov

C) Samuel Beckett

D) Oscar Wilde

Answer: A) Henrik Ibsen

Question: What is the title of the first book in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy?

 

A) The Fellowship of the Ring

B) The Two Towers

C) The Return of the King

D) The Hobbit

Answer: A) The Fellowship of the Ring

Question: Who is the author of the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?

 

A) T.S. Eliot

B) Robert Frost

C) Langston Hughes

D) W.B. Yeats

Answer: A) T.S. Eliot

Question: In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” what is Hamlet’s famous soliloquy that begins with “To be or not to be”?

 

A) Act 1, Scene 1

B) Act 1, Scene 5

C) Act 3, Scene 1

D) Act 4, Scene 7

Answer: C) Act 3, Scene 1

Question: Who wrote the novel “The Catcher in the Rye”?

 

A) J.D. Salinger

B) Ernest Hemingway

C) F. Scott Fitzgerald

D) John Steinbeck

Answer: A) J.D. Salinger

Question: In Chinua Achebe’s “No Longer at Ease,” what is the protagonist’s name?

 

A) Obi Okonkwo

B) Okonkwo

C) Ezeulu

D) Nwoye

Answer: A) Obi Okonkwo

Question: Who is the author of the play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”?

 

A) Edward Albee

B) Tennessee Williams

C) Arthur Miller

D) Eugene O’Neill

Answer: A) Edward Albee

Question: What is the literary term for the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story?

 

A) Foreshadowing

B) Flashback

C) Irony

D) Symbolism

Answer: A) Foreshadowing

Question: In Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children,” what supernatural power do the children born at midnight possess?

 

A) Invisibility

B) Telepathy

C) Shape-shifting

D) Time Travel

Answer: B) Telepathy

Question: Who wrote the play “The Importance of Being Earnest”?

 

A) Oscar Wilde

B) George Bernard Shaw

C) Samuel Beckett

D) Anton Chekhov

Answer: A) Oscar Wilde

Question: In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” what event is the novel centered around?

 

A) Wedding

B) Funeral

C) Birthday celebration

D) War

Answer: A) Wedding

Question: Who is the author of the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God”?

 

A) Zora Neale Hurston

B) Toni Morrison

C) Maya Angelou

D) Alice Walker

Answer: A) Zora Neale Hurston

Question: What is the central theme of Alb

ert Camus’s novel “The Stranger”?

 

A) Absurdism

B) Existentialism

C) Surrealism

D) Naturalism

Answer: A) Absurdism