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

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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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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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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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In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, which character famously utters the soliloquy beginning with To be, or not to be?

A. Hamlet

B. Ophelia

C. Claudius

D. Polonius

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Who wrote the poem The Raven, known for its melancholic atmosphere and refrain of Nevermore?

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Washington Irving

D. Emily Dickinson

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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 wrote the poem The Road Not Taken, which includes the famous lines Two roads diverged in a wood, and I / I took the one less traveled by?

A. Robert Frost

B. Langston Hughes

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Walt Whitman

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Who wrote the poem Because I could not stop for Death, which explores the journey from life to death?

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Robert Frost

C. Langston Hughes

D. Walt Whitman

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Who wrote the play A Doll's House, which addresses issues of gender roles and societal expectations?

A. Henrik Ibsen

B. August Strindberg

C. Anton Chekhov

D. Eugene O'Neill

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What is the title of the novel by Charlotte Bront�, featuring the character Jane Eyre's journey through adversity and love?

A. Jane Eyre

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Villette

D. Agnes Grey

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Which American poet is known for his confessional poetry and wrote Daddy and Lady Lazarus?

A. Sylvia Plath

B. Anne Sexton

C. Adrienne Rich

D. Maya Angelou

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Who wrote the novel The Catcher in the Rye, which follows the experiences of the disenchanted teenager Holden Caulfield in New York City?

A. J.D. Salinger

B. Kurt Vonnegut

C. Jack Kerouac

D. John Updike

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Which novel by Mary Shelley features the character Victor Frankenstein and his creation?

A. Dracula

B. The Picture of Dorian Gray

C. Frankenstein

D. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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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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Who wrote the novel To the Lighthouse, known for its exploration of consciousness and stream-of-consciousness narrative style?

A. Virginia Woolf

B. D.H. Lawrence

C. E.M. Forster

D. James Joyce

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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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Which American author is known for his works set in the American South, including As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury?

A. William Faulkner

B. Tennessee Williams

C. Harper Lee

D. Eudora Welty

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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 Greek poet is credited with composing the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey?

A. Homer

B. Hesiod

C. Sappho

D. Pindar

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Who is the author of Beloved, a novel about the horrors of slavery and its aftermath in America?

A. Toni Morrison

B. Maya Angelou

C. Alice Walker

D. Zora Neale Hurston

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In George Orwell's novella Animal Farm, which animal represents the bourgeoisie and ruling class?

A. Pigs

B. Horses

C. Dogs

D. Sheep

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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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In William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, who is the character known for his leadership and sense of order?

A. Ralph

B. Piggy

C. Jack

D. Simon

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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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Who wrote the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which is known for its modernist style and introspective themes?

A. W.B. Yeats

B. T.S. Eliot

C. Ezra Pound

D. Wallace Stevens

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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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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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What is the title of the dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley that explores themes of technology, conformity, and individuality?

A. Brave New World

B. 1984

C. Fahrenheit 451

D. The Handmaid's Tale

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

A. Harold Pinter

B. Samuel Beckett

C. Tom Stoppard

D. Anton Chekhov

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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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Who is the author of the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, set in a mental institution and narrated by Chief Bromden?

A. Ken Kesey

B. Kurt Vonnegut

C. Philip K. Dick

D. Joseph Heller

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B. John Donne

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