11. Who is the author of the epic poem Paradise Lost?
(A) Geoffrey Chaucer
(B) John Milton
(C) Edmund Spenser
(D) William Blake
Answer:
(B) John Milton
Explanation:
Paradise Lost is a 17th-century epic poem written in blank verse by the English poet John Milton, exploring the biblical story of the Fall of Man.
12. Which Indian author won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things?
(A) Arundhati Roy
(B) Jhumpa Lahiri
(C) Anita Desai
(D) Kiran Desai
Answer:
(A) Arundhati Roy
Explanation:
Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her celebrated debut novel, The God of Small Things.
13. Who wrote The Trial, a novel published posthumously?
(A) Thomas Mann
(B) Franz Kafka
(C) Jean-Paul Sartre
(D) Albert Camus
Answer:
(B) Franz Kafka
Explanation:
The Trial is a psychological and surreal novel written by Franz Kafka and published in 1925, a year after his death, by his friend Max Brod.
14. Which author created the dystopian world of The Handmaid’s Tale?
(A) Margaret Atwood
(B) Ursula K. Le Guin
(C) Octavia E. Butler
(D) Sylvia Plath
Answer:
(A) Margaret Atwood
Explanation:
The acclaimed 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale was written by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
15. Identify the figure of speech in: “Time is a thief.”
(A) Metaphor
(B) Irony
(C) Allusion
(D) Simile
Answer:
(A) Metaphor
Explanation:
The phrase is a metaphor because it directly equates “time” to a “thief” to describe its fleeting nature, without using the comparative words “like” or “as.”
