50 MCQs on Fiction (with Answers & Explanations)
1.
Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
a) Charlotte Brontë
b) Jane Austen
c) George Eliot
d) Virginia Woolf
Answer: b) Jane Austen
Explanation: A classic novel of manners focusing on Elizabeth Bennet.
2.
The protagonist of Pride and Prejudice is:
a) Jane Bennet
b) Elizabeth Bennet
c) Lydia Bennet
d) Anne Elliot
Answer: b) Elizabeth Bennet
3.
Who wrote Great Expectations?
a) Hardy
b) Dickens
c) Eliot
d) Thackeray
Answer: b) Dickens
4.
Pip is the central character in Great Expectations.
Answer: Correct
Explanation: The novel traces Pip’s moral development.
5.
Who wrote Middlemarch?
a) Austen
b) Eliot
c) Woolf
d) Hardy
Answer: b) Eliot
6.
George Eliot’s real name was:
a) Mary Shelley
b) Mary Ann Evans
c) Emily Brontë
d) Anne Brontë
Answer: b) Mary Ann Evans
7.
Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
a) Charlotte Brontë
b) Emily Brontë
c) Anne Brontë
d) Eliot
Answer: b) Emily Brontë
8.
Heathcliff appears in Wuthering Heights.
Answer: Correct
9.
Who wrote Jane Eyre?
a) Emily Brontë
b) Charlotte Brontë
c) Anne Brontë
d) Austen
Answer: b) Charlotte Brontë
10.
Mr. Rochester is a character in Jane Eyre.
Answer: Correct
11.
Who wrote Tess of the d’Urbervilles?
a) Hardy
b) Dickens
c) Eliot
d) Lawrence
Answer: a) Hardy
12.
Hardy’s novels are often termed:
a) Romantic
b) Tragic
c) Comic
d) Satirical
Answer: b) Tragic
Explanation: His works show fate and suffering.
13.
Who wrote Mrs Dalloway?
a) Woolf
b) Eliot
c) Joyce
d) Lawrence
Answer: a) Woolf
14.
“Stream of consciousness” is associated with:
a) Woolf
b) Dickens
c) Austen
d) Hardy
Answer: a) Woolf
15.
Who wrote Ulysses?
a) Woolf
b) Joyce
c) Eliot
d) Lawrence
Answer: b) Joyce
16.
Modernist fiction emphasizes:
a) Plot
b) Inner consciousness
c) Action
d) Morality
Answer: b) Inner consciousness
17.
Who wrote Sons and Lovers?
a) Lawrence
b) Hardy
c) Joyce
d) Woolf
Answer: a) Lawrence
18.
Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
a) Conrad
b) Kipling
c) Forster
d) Orwell
Answer: a) Conrad
19.
Marlow narrates Heart of Darkness.
Answer: Correct
20.
Who wrote A Passage to India?
a) Orwell
b) Forster
c) Conrad
d) Kipling
Answer: b) Forster
21.
Who wrote 1984?
a) Orwell
b) Huxley
c) Wells
d) Golding
Answer: a) Orwell
22.
“Big Brother” appears in 1984.
Answer: Correct
23.
Who wrote Brave New World?
a) Orwell
b) Huxley
c) Wells
d) Golding
Answer: b) Huxley
24.
Dystopian fiction deals with:
a) Ideal world
b) Nightmarish society
c) Comedy
d) Romance
Answer: b) Nightmarish society
25.
Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
a) Golding
b) Orwell
c) Huxley
d) Conrad
Answer: a) Golding
26.
Who wrote To the Lighthouse?
a) Woolf
b) Joyce
c) Eliot
d) Austen
Answer: a) Woolf
27.
Who wrote The Waste Land?
a) Eliot
b) Yeats
c) Pound
d) Auden
Answer: a) Eliot
Explanation: Though poetry, often linked to modernist fiction themes.
28.
Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?
a) Hemingway
b) Faulkner
c) Steinbeck
d) Fitzgerald
Answer: a) Hemingway
29.
Hemingway is known for:
a) Ornate style
b) Simple prose
c) Poetry
d) Drama
Answer: b) Simple prose
30.
Who wrote The Sound and the Fury?
a) Faulkner
b) Hemingway
c) Fitzgerald
d) Steinbeck
Answer: a) Faulkner
31.
Faulkner’s novels often use:
a) Linear narrative
b) Stream of consciousness
c) Drama
d) Poetry
Answer: b) Stream of consciousness
32.
Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
a) Fitzgerald
b) Hemingway
c) Faulkner
d) Steinbeck
Answer: a) Fitzgerald
33.
Jay Gatsby is a character in The Great Gatsby.
Answer: Correct
34.
Who wrote Of Mice and Men?
a) Steinbeck
b) Faulkner
c) Hemingway
d) Fitzgerald
Answer: a) Steinbeck
35.
Naturalism is associated with:
a) Determinism
b) Freedom
c) Romance
d) Comedy
Answer: a) Determinism
36.
Who wrote Robinson Crusoe?
a) Defoe
b) Swift
c) Fielding
d) Richardson
Answer: a) Defoe
37.
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
a) Swift
b) Defoe
c) Fielding
d) Pope
Answer: a) Swift
38.
Satire is dominant in Gulliver’s Travels.
Answer: Correct
39.
Who wrote Tom Jones?
a) Fielding
b) Defoe
c) Richardson
d) Swift
Answer: a) Fielding
40.
Who wrote Pamela?
a) Richardson
b) Fielding
c) Defoe
d) Swift
Answer: a) Richardson
41.
Epistolary novel uses:
a) Letters
b) Dialogue
c) Monologue
d) Narration
Answer: a) Letters
42.
Who wrote Frankenstein?
a) Shelley
b) Austen
c) Eliot
d) Brontë
Answer: a) Shelley
43.
Gothic fiction includes:
a) Horror elements
b) Comedy
c) Romance only
d) Satire
Answer: a) Horror elements
44.
Who wrote Dracula?
a) Stoker
b) Shelley
c) Wilde
d) Hardy
Answer: a) Stoker
45.
Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
a) Wilde
b) Shaw
c) Eliot
d) Hardy
Answer: a) Wilde
46.
A bildungsroman is a:
a) War novel
b) Coming-of-age novel
c) Comic novel
d) Gothic novel
Answer: b) Coming-of-age novel
47.
First-person narration uses:
a) “I”
b) “He/She”
c) “They”
d) “You”
Answer: a) “I”
48.
Omniscient narrator knows:
a) Nothing
b) Everything
c) Only one character
d) Dialogue only
Answer: b) Everything
49.
Realism focuses on:
a) Fantasy
b) Everyday life
c) Myth
d) Romance
Answer: b) Everyday life
50.
Fiction primarily deals with:
a) Facts
b) Imagination
c) History only
d) Science
Answer: b) Imagination
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