Current Affairs MCQs – Literature & Arts Set 2 (20 Explained)

This is a 20-question MCQ set on Literature & Arts (Set 2) — authors, painters, and composers. 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.

Q1. Who wrote “Pride and Prejudice”? A) Charlotte Brontë B) Jane Austen C) Emily Brontë D) Mary Shelley

Q2. Who wrote “War and Peace”? A) Dostoevsky B) Leo Tolstoy C) Chekhov D) Pushkin

Q3. Who wrote “The Divine Comedy”? A) Virgil B) Dante Alighieri C) Petrarch D) Boccaccio

Q4. Who wrote “Don Quixote”? A) Cervantes B) Lope de Vega C) Calderón D) Quevedo

Q5. Who wrote “The Odyssey”? A) Virgil B) Homer C) Sophocles D) Euripides

Q6. Who painted “The Starry Night”? A) Monet B) Van Gogh C) Picasso D) Rembrandt

Q7. Who composed “Für Elise”? A) Mozart B) Beethoven C) Bach D) Handel

Q8. Who wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”? A) Lewis Carroll B) Roald Dahl C) J.M. Barrie D) A.A. Milne

Q9. Who wrote “The Great Gatsby”? A) Hemingway B) F. Scott Fitzgerald C) Faulkner D) Steinbeck

Q10. Who painted “The Scream”? A) Munch B) Monet C) Van Gogh D) Dali

Q11. Who wrote “1984”? A) Huxley B) George Orwell C) Bradbury D) Wells

Q12. Who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”? A) Harper Lee B) Toni Morrison C) Maya Angelou D) Flannery O’Connor

Q13. Who composed “The Four Seasons”? A) Bach B) Vivaldi C) Handel D) Haydn

Q14. Who wrote “Romeo and Juliet”? A) Marlowe B) Shakespeare C) Jonson D) Webster

Q15. Who painted “Guernica”? A) Dali B) Picasso C) Matisse D) Miro

Q16. Who wrote “The Catcher in the Rye”? A) Salinger B) Kerouac C) Vonnegut D) Heller

Q17. Who wrote “Moby-Dick”? A) Hawthorne B) Herman Melville C) Poe D) Twain

Q18. Who wrote “Jane Eyre”? A) Jane Austen B) Charlotte Brontë C) Emily Brontë D) George Eliot

Q19. Who composed “Swan Lake”? A) Tchaikovsky B) Rachmaninoff C) Stravinsky D) Prokofiev

Q20. Who wrote “The Hobbit”? A) C.S. Lewis B) J.R.R. Tolkien C) Tolkien’s son D) Rowling

Q1 – B) Jane Austen. Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice. Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, Emily wrote Wuthering Heights, Shelley wrote Frankenstein.

Q2 – B) Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy wrote War and Peace. Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment, Chekhov wrote plays, Pushkin wrote Eugene Onegin.

Q3 – B) Dante Alighieri. Dante wrote The Divine Comedy. Virgil wrote Aeneid, Petrarch wrote sonnets, Boccaccio wrote Decameron.

Q4 – A) Cervantes. Cervantes wrote Don Quixote. Lope wrote plays, Calderón wrote plays, Quevedo wrote satire.

Q5 – B) Homer. Homer wrote The Odyssey. Virgil wrote Aeneid, Sophocles wrote Oedipus, Euripides wrote Medea.

Q6 – B) Van Gogh. Van Gogh painted The Starry Night. Monet painted Water Lilies, Picasso painted Guernica, Rembrandt painted Night Watch.

Q7 – B) Beethoven. Beethoven composed Für Elise. Mozart composed Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Bach composed Brandenburg, Handel composed Messiah.

Q8 – A) Lewis Carroll. Carroll wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Dahl wrote Matilda, Barrie wrote Peter Pan, Milne wrote Winnie-the-Pooh.

Q9 – B) F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby. Hemingway wrote Old Man and the Sea, Faulkner wrote Sound and Fury, Steinbeck wrote Grapes of Wrath.

Q10 – A) Munch. Munch painted The Scream. Monet painted Water Lilies, Van Gogh painted Starry Night, Dali painted Persistence of Memory.

Q11 – B) George Orwell. Orwell wrote 1984. Huxley wrote Brave New World, Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, Wells wrote Time Machine.

Q12 – A) Harper Lee. Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. Morrison wrote Beloved, Angelou wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, O’Connor wrote short stories.

Q13 – B) Vivaldi. Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons. Bach composed Brandenburg, Handel composed Messiah, Haydn composed symphonies.

Q14 – B) Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet. Marlowe wrote Doctor Faustus, Jonson wrote Volpone, Webster wrote Duchess of Malfi.

Q15 – B) Picasso. Picasso painted Guernica. Dali painted Persistence of Memory, Matisse painted Dance, Miro painted paintings.

Q16 – A) Salinger. Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye. Kerouac wrote On the Road, Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five, Heller wrote Catch-22.

Q17 – B) Herman Melville. Melville wrote Moby-Dick. Hawthorne wrote Scarlet Letter, Poe wrote Raven, Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn.

Q18 – B) Charlotte Brontë. Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre. Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice, Emily wrote Wuthering Heights, Eliot wrote Middlemarch.

Q19 – A) Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky composed Swan Lake. Rachmaninoff composed concertos, Stravinsky composed Rite of Spring, Prokofiev composed Peter and the Wolf.

Q20 – B) J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit. Lewis wrote Narnia, Tolkien’s son edited, Rowling wrote Harry Potter.

Weak-Section Review: Which questions did you miss? Write the 3 you missed, the correct answers, and one line for each explaining why. Literature & Arts: revise Austen (Pride and Prejudice), Tolstoy (War and Peace), Dante (Divine Comedy), Cervantes (Don Quixote), Homer (Odyssey), Van Gogh (Starry Night), Beethoven (Für Elise), Carroll (Alice), Fitzgerald (Great Gatsby), Munch (Scream), Orwell (1984), Lee (Mockingbird), Vivaldi (Four Seasons), Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet), Picasso (Guernica), Salinger (Catcher in the Rye), Melville (Moby-Dick), Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre), Tchaikovsky (Swan Lake), Tolkien (Hobbit). Re-attempt this set in 2 days.

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