In George Orwell's novel 1984, what is the name of the oppressive government led by Big Brother?

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In George Orwell's novel 1984, what is the name of the oppressive government led by Big Brother?

A. The Party

B. The Collective

C. The Regime

D. The Authority

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Which English poet wrote The Tyger and The Lamb, both part of his collection Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence?

A. John Keats

B. William Wordsworth

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. William Blake

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Who wrote the novel Moby-Dick, which tells the story of Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for a white whale?

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Herman Melville

C. Mark Twain

D. Washington Irving

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In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, what is the name of Jay Gatsby's love interest?

A. Daisy Buchanan

B. Jordan Baker

C. Myrtle Wilson

D. Nick Carraway

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Who wrote the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which follows the life and development of Stephen Dedalus?

A. James Joyce

B. D.H. Lawrence

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. E.M. Forster

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In Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility, which two sisters are the central characters?

A. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood

B. Jane and Elizabeth Bennet

C. Emma and Harriet Smith

D. Catherine and Isabella Morland

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Who is the author of the novel The Grapes of Wrath, which portrays the struggles of the Joad family during the Great Depression?

A. John Steinbeck

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. William Faulkner

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Which author wrote the satirical novel Animal Farm, which allegorically critiques the Russian Revolution?

A. George Orwell

B. Aldous Huxley

C. Franz Kafka

D. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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What is the title of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in the American South during the 1930s?

A. The Catcher in the Rye

B. To Kill a Mockingbird

C. Brave New World

D. Lord of the Flies

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Which novel by Charlotte Bront� follows the life of the orphaned protagonist Jane Eyre?

A. Wuthering Heights

B. Villette

C. Jane Eyre

D. Agnes Grey

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Who wrote the novel The Sound and the Fury, known for its innovative narrative techniques and exploration of Southern American life?

A. William Faulkner

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. John Steinbeck

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In Shakespeare's play Othello, who is Iago's wife, known for her innocence and honesty?

A. Desdemona

B. Emilia

C. Bianca

D. Cassio

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Which American author is known for his darkly comedic novels, including Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle?

A. Kurt Vonnegut

B. Joseph Heller

C. Philip Roth

D. J.D. Salinger

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In which Shakespeare play does the character Lady Macbeth famously say, Out, damned spot!?

A. Macbeth

B. Othello

C. Hamlet

D. King Lear

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In T.S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, what is the repeated phrase that suggests a sense of futility?

A. In the room where women come and go

B. I have heard the mermaids singing

C. Let us go then, you and I

D. Do I dare disturb the universe?

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Which literary movement emphasized emotion, imagination, and individualism and often featured a focus on nature?

A. Romanticism

B. Realism

C. Naturalism

D. Modernism

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Which Russian author wrote the novel Crime and Punishment, exploring themes of guilt and redemption?

A. Fyodor Dostoevsky

B. Leo Tolstoy

C. Anton Chekhov

D. Ivan Turgenev

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Who wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which addresses issues of racial injustice in the American South?

A. Harper Lee

B. Truman Capote

C. John Steinbeck

D. Toni Morrison

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Which Greek playwright is known for his tragedies, including works like Oedipus Rex?

A. Aeschylus

B. Sophocles

C. Euripides

D. Aristophanes

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Which American playwright wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Zoo Story?

A. Edward Albee

B. Arthur Miller

C. Lorraine Hansberry

D. Tennessee Williams

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Who wrote the novel The Stranger (L'�tranger) which explores the absurdity of human existence?

A. Albert Camus

B. Jean-Paul Sartre

C. Simone de Beauvoir

D. Franz Kafka

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Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?

A. Emily Bront�

B. Jane Austen

C. Charles Dickens

D. Charlotte Bront�

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Who wrote the novel Middlemarch, which explores various social and political issues in 19th-century England?

A. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

B. Charlotte Bront�

C. Jane Austen

D. Emily Bront�

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Who is the author of the play Waiting for Godot, characterized by its absurdist themes and minimalistic setting?

A. Samuel Beckett

B. Harold Pinter

C. Tom Stoppard

D. Anton Chekhov

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In T.S. Eliot's poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, what is the repeated phrase that suggests a sense of futility?

A. Do I dare disturb the universe?

B. In the room where women come and go

C. I have heard the mermaids singing

D. Let us go then, you and I

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Who is the author of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a landmark work of magic realism?

A. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

B. Jorge Luis Borges

C. Isabel Allende

D. Pablo Neruda

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Which American poet wrote Song of Myself and was a prominent figure in the transcendentalist movement?

A. Walt Whitman

B. Emily Dickinson

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

D. Henry David Thoreau

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Who wrote the poem The Second Coming, which includes the lines Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold?

A. William Butler Yeats

B. W.H. Auden

C. Robert Frost

D. T.S. Eliot

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Who wrote the poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, known for its metaphysical conceits about separation and love?

A. John Milton

B. John Donne

C. Andrew Marvell

D. George Herbert

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In George Orwell's essay Shooting an Elephant, what does the elephant represent symbolically?

A. Imperialism

B. Freedom

C. Democracy

D. Enlightenment

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Who wrote the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which follows the life and development of Stephen Dedalus?

A. James Joyce

B. D.H. Lawrence

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. E.M. Forster

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