1. Which author wrote the novel "Pride and Prejudice"?
a) Jane Austen
b) Charles Dickens
c) George Orwell
d) Mark Twain
Answer: a) Jane Austen
2. Which of the following is not a type of poem?
a) Sonnet
b) Haiku
c) Ballad
d) Simile
Answer: d) Simile
3. What is the longest English word in the dictionary?
a) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
b) Antidisestablishmentarianism
c) Floccinaucinihilipilification
d) Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Answer: d) Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
4. Who is the protagonist in George Orwell's novel "1984"?
a) Winston Churchill
b) Winston Smith
c) George Orwell
d) Big Brother
Answer: b) Winston Smith
5. In Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet," which family does Romeo belong to?
a) Montague
b) Capulet
c) Borgia
d) Medici
Answer: a) Montague
6. What is the term for a word that sounds like the noise it represents?
a) Onomatopoeia
b) Metaphor
c) Alliteration
d) Hyperbole
Answer: a) Onomatopoeia
7. Who wrote the poem "The Raven"?
a) Robert Frost
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: c) Edgar Allan Poe
8. Which of the following is not a Shakespearean play?
a) Macbeth
b) Hamlet
c) Othello
d) Ulysses
Answer: d) Ulysses
9. What is the opposite of "synonym"?
a) Antonym
b) Homonym
c) Acronym
d) Metonym
Answer: a) Antonym
10. Which British author wrote the "Harry Potter" series?
a) J.R.R. Tolkien
b) J.K. Rowling
c) C.S. Lewis
d) Lewis Carroll
Answer: b) J.K. Rowling
11. What is the capitalization rule for titles in English writing?
a) Capitalize every word
b) Capitalize only the first and last word
c) Capitalize all nouns and verbs
d) Capitalize the important words
Answer: d) Capitalize the important words
12. Who is considered the father of English literature?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) John Milton
d) William Wordsworth
Answer: b) Geoffrey Chaucer
13. What is the correct plural form of the word "cactus"?
a) Cactuss
b) Cacti
c) Cactusies
d) Cactuses
Answer: b) Cacti
14. Which of the following is not a figure of speech?
a) Simile
b) Metaphor
c) Hyperbole
d) Sentence
Answer: d) Sentence
15.
Who wrote the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) Harper Lee
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: b) Harper Lee
16. What is the term for a word or phrase that means the opposite of its literal meaning?
a) Irony
b) Paradox
c) Sarcasm
d) Oxymoron
Answer: d) Oxymoron
17. Which of the following is a type of punctuation mark?
a) Ampersand
b) Hashtag
c) Parenthesis
d) Asterisk
Answer: c) Parenthesis
18. Who is the author of "Moby-Dick"?
a) Herman Melville
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Mark Twain
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: a) Herman Melville
19. What is the process of making a word past tense by adding "-ed" or "-d" called?
a) Conjugation
b) Inflection
c) Derivation
d) Tense agreement
Answer: b) Inflection
20. Which of the following is a type of conjunction?
a) And
b) But
c) Therefore
d) All of the above
Answer: d) All of the above
21. Who wrote the play "Hamlet"?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Oscar Wilde
c) George Bernard Shaw
d) Tennessee Williams
Answer: a) William Shakespeare
22. What is the term for a word that has the same meaning as another word?
a) Homonym
b) Synonym
c) Antonym
d) Metaphor
Answer: b) Synonym
23. Which novel features the character Atticus Finch?
a) "The Great Gatsby"
b) "To Kill a Mockingbird"
c) "1984"
d) "Pride and Prejudice"
Answer: b) "To Kill a Mockingbird"
24. What is the correct order of the three main parts of an essay?
a) Introduction, body, conclusion
b) Body, introduction, conclusion
c) Conclusion, introduction, body
d) Conclusion, body, introduction
Answer: a) Introduction, body, conclusion
25. Who is the author of the play "Romeo and Juliet"?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Samuel Beckett
c) Arthur Miller
d) Tennessee Williams
Answer: a) William Shakespeare
26. What is the term for a word that imitates the sound it represents?
a) Onomatopoeia
b) Simile
c) Metaphor
d) Hyperbole
Answer: a) Onomatopoeia
27. Who is the author of 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
28. What is the term for a group of words that expresses a complete thought?
a) Phrase
b) Clause
c) Sentence
d) Fragment
Answer: c) Sentence
29. Who wrote the poem "The Waste Land"?
a) T.S. Eliot
b) W.B. Yeats
c) Robert Frost
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) T.S. Eliot
30. What is the correct spelling of the word meaning "extremely funny"?
a) Hilarious
b) Hillarious
c) Hilerious
d) Hilarous
Answer: a) Hilarious
