Current Affairs MCQs – Literature & Arts (20 Explained)

This is a 20-question MCQ set on Literature & Arts — world literature, art, music, and Pakistani literature. Attempt all 20 in 25 minutes without looking at the answers, then check the explained answers and review your weak section. These are original practice questions, not copied from FPSC papers or competitor question banks, and this site is not affiliated with FPSC. Scoring: 18–20 = strong. 15–17 = good. 12–14 = fair, revise the sections you missed. Below 12 = study the weak-section review, then re-attempt in 2 days.

Questions (Q1–Q20):

Q1. Who wrote “Hamlet”? A) Charles Dickens B) William Shakespeare C) John Milton D) Jane Austen

Q2. Who painted the Mona Lisa? A) Pablo Picasso B) Vincent van Gogh C) Leonardo da Vinci D) Michelangelo

Q3. Who wrote “Pride and Prejudice”? A) Charlotte Brontë B) Jane Austen C) Emily Brontë D) George Eliot

Q4. Who composed the “Moonlight Sonata”? A) Johann Sebastian Bach B) Ludwig van Beethoven C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart D) Frédéric Chopin

Q5. Who wrote “The Divine Comedy”? A) Dante Alighieri B) Homer C) Virgil D) Geoffrey Chaucer

Q6. Who painted “The Starry Night”? A) Claude Monet B) Pablo Picasso C) Vincent van Gogh D) Salvador Dalí

Q7. Who wrote “Don Quixote”? A) Miguel de Cervantes B) Victor Hugo C) Leo Tolstoy D) Fyodor Dostoevsky

Q8. Who composed “The Four Seasons”? A) Antonio Vivaldi B) Johann Sebastian Bach C) George Frideric Handel D) Joseph Haydn

Q9. Who wrote “War and Peace”? A) Fyodor Dostoevsky B) Leo Tolstoy C) Anton Chekhov D) Ivan Turgenev

Q10. Who painted “The Last Supper”? A) Raphael B) Michelangelo C) Leonardo da Vinci D) Rembrandt

Q11. Who wrote “Shah Jo Risalo”? A) Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai B) Sachal Sarmast C) Bulleh Shah D) Waris Shah

Q12. Who wrote the national anthem of Pakistan? A) Allama Iqbal B) Hafeez Jalandhari C) Faiz Ahmed Faiz D) Josh Malihabadi

Q13. Who wrote “Bang-e-Dra”? A) Faiz Ahmed Faiz B) Allama Iqbal C) Hafeez Jalandhari D) Mirza Ghalib

Q14. Who painted “The Scream”? A) Edvard Munch B) Pablo Picasso C) Vincent van Gogh D) Claude Monet

Q15. Who wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”? A) Charles Dickens B) Lewis Carroll C) J. R. R. Tolkien D) C. S. Lewis

Q16. Who composed “Für Elise”? A) Johann Sebastian Bach B) Ludwig van Beethoven C) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart D) Frédéric Chopin

Q17. Who wrote “The Odyssey”? A) Homer B) Virgil C) Sophocles D) Euripides

Q18. Who painted “Guernica”? A) Salvador Dalí B) Pablo Picasso C) Henri Matisse D) Joan Miró

Q19. Who wrote “Gulliver’s Travels”? A) Jonathan Swift B) Daniel Defoe C) Henry Fielding D) Samuel Richardson

Q20. Who wrote “Madame Bovary”? A) Victor Hugo B) Gustave Flaubert C) Émile Zola D) Honoré de Balzac

Answer Key + Explained Answers:

Q1 – B) William Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote “Hamlet”. Charles Dickens wrote “Oliver Twist”, John Milton wrote “Paradise Lost”, Jane Austen wrote “Pride and Prejudice”.

Q2 – C) Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. Pablo Picasso painted “Guernica”, Vincent van Gogh painted “The Starry Night”, Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Q3 – B) Jane Austen. Jane Austen wrote “Pride and Prejudice”. Charlotte Brontë wrote “Jane Eyre”, Emily Brontë wrote “Wuthering Heights”, George Eliot wrote “Middlemarch”.

Q4 – B) Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven composed the “Moonlight Sonata”. Johann Sebastian Bach composed the “Brandenburg Concertos”, Mozart composed “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”, Chopin composed nocturnes.

Q5 – A) Dante Alighieri. Dante wrote “The Divine Comedy”. Homer wrote “The Iliad”, Virgil wrote “The Aeneid”, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote “The Canterbury Tales”.

Q6 – C) Vincent van Gogh. Vincent van Gogh painted “The Starry Night”. Claude Monet painted water lilies, Pablo Picasso painted “Guernica”, Salvador Dalí painted “The Persistence of Memory”.

Q7 – A) Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes wrote “Don Quixote”. Victor Hugo wrote “Les Misérables”, Leo Tolstoy wrote “War and Peace”, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote “Crime and Punishment”.

Q8 – A) Antonio Vivaldi. Vivaldi composed “The Four Seasons”. Johann Sebastian Bach composed the “Brandenburg Concertos”, Handel composed “Messiah”, Haydn composed symphonies.

Q9 – B) Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy wrote “War and Peace”. Dostoevsky wrote “Crime and Punishment”, Anton Chekhov wrote plays, Ivan Turgenev wrote “Fathers and Sons”.

Q10 – C) Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci painted “The Last Supper”. Raphael painted “The School of Athens”, Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Rembrandt painted “The Night Watch”.

Q11 – A) Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. Bhittai wrote “Shah Jo Risalo”. Sachal Sarmast wrote Sindhi poetry, Bulleh Shah wrote Punjabi poetry, Waris Shah wrote “Heer Ranjha”.

Q12 – B) Hafeez Jalandhari. Hafeez Jalandhari wrote the national anthem of Pakistan. Allama Iqbal wrote “Shikwa”, Faiz wrote “Hum Dekhenge”, Josh wrote “Yaad”.

Q13 – B) Allama Iqbal. Allama Iqbal wrote “Bang-e-Dra”. Faiz wrote “Dast-e-Saba”, Hafeez wrote the national anthem, Mirza Ghalib wrote ghazals.

Q14 – A) Edvard Munch. Edvard Munch painted “The Scream”. Pablo Picasso painted “Guernica”, Vincent van Gogh painted “The Starry Night”, Claude Monet painted water lilies.

Q15 – B) Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Charles Dickens wrote “Oliver Twist”, J. R. R. Tolkien wrote “The Hobbit”, C. S. Lewis wrote “The Chronicles of Narnia”.

Q16 – B) Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven composed “Für Elise”. Bach composed the “Brandenburg Concertos”, Mozart composed “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”, Chopin composed nocturnes.

Q17 – A) Homer. Homer wrote “The Odyssey”. Virgil wrote “The Aeneid”, Sophocles wrote “Oedipus Rex”, Euripides wrote “Medea”.

Q18 – B) Pablo Picasso. Picasso painted “Guernica”. Salvador Dalí painted “The Persistence of Memory”, Henri Matisse painted cut-outs, Joan Miró painted surrealist works.

Q19 – A) Jonathan Swift. Jonathan Swift wrote “Gulliver’s Travels”. Daniel Defoe wrote “Robinson Crusoe”, Henry Fielding wrote “Tom Jones”, Samuel Richardson wrote “Pamela”.

Q20 – B) Gustave Flaubert. Flaubert wrote “Madame Bovary”. Victor Hugo wrote “Les Misérables”, Émile Zola wrote “Germinal”, Honoré de Balzac wrote “La Comédie Humaine”.

Weak-Section Review: Which questions did you miss? Write the 3 you missed, the correct answers, and one line for each explaining why. World Literature: revise Hamlet (Shakespeare), Pride and Prejudice (Austen), Divine Comedy (Dante), Don Quixote (Cervantes), War and Peace (Tolstoy), Alice (Carroll), Odyssey (Homer), Gulliver (Swift), Madame Bovary (Flaubert). Art & Music: revise Mona Lisa (da Vinci), Starry Night (van Gogh), Last Supper (da Vinci), Scream (Munch), Guernica (Picasso), Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven), Four Seasons (Vivaldi), Für Elise (Beethoven). Pakistani Literature: revise Shah Jo Risalo (Bhittai), national anthem (Hafeez Jalandhari), Bang-e-Dra (Iqbal). Re-attempt this set in 2 days.

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