Current Affairs MCQs – Literature & Arts Set 3 (20 Explained)

At a glance

• Pattern: 20 original questions on famous authors, books, poets, painters and artistic forms
• Attempt: all 20 in 25 minutes without looking at the answers, then check the explained answers and review your weak section
• Scoring: 18–20 = strong, 15–17 = good, 12–14 = fair, below 12 = study the weak-section review, then re-attempt in 2 days

This Literature Arts MCQs Set 3 gives you 20 original questions on famous authors, books, poets, painters and artistic forms. Attempt all 20 in 25 minutes without looking at the answers, then check the explained answers and review your weak section.
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.

Literature Arts MCQs Set 3 — Questions
Q1. Who wrote “Pride and Prejudice”?
A) Charlotte Brontë
B) Jane Austen
C) Mary Shelley
D) Virginia Woolf
Q2. Which poet wrote “The Waste Land”?
A) W. B. Yeats
B) T. S. Eliot
C) W. H. Auden
D) Robert Frost
Q3. Who painted the “Mona Lisa”?
A) Michelangelo
B) Raphael
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Rembrandt
Q4. “War and Peace” was written by which author?
A) Anton Chekhov
B) Leo Tolstoy
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) Alexander Pushkin
Q5. Which writer created the character Sherlock Holmes?
A) Agatha Christie
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Charles Dickens
D) H. G. Wells
Q6. Who wrote “The Odyssey”?
A) Virgil
B) Homer
C) Sophocles
D) Plato
Q7. Which art movement is Pablo Picasso most closely associated with?
A) Impressionism
B) Surrealism
C) Cubism
D) Romanticism
Q8. Who wrote “Things Fall Apart”?
A) Wole Soyinka
B) Chinua Achebe
C) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
D) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Q9. Which poet is known as the national poet of Pakistan?
A) Faiz Ahmed Faiz
B) Allama Iqbal
C) Ahmed Faraz
D) Habib Jalib
Q10. “Don Quixote” was written by which author?
A) Miguel de Cervantes
B) Lope de Vega
C) Federico García Lorca
D) Jorge Luis Borges
Q11. Who composed the music for the opera “The Magic Flute”?
A) Beethoven
B) Handel
C) Mozart
D) Bach
Q12. Which novel begins with the line about it being the best of times and the worst of times?
A) Great Expectations
B) A Tale of Two Cities
C) Bleak House
D) Hard Times
Q13. Who painted “The Starry Night”?
A) Claude Monet
B) Paul Cézanne
C) Vincent van Gogh
D) Paul Gauguin
Q14. Which Urdu poet wrote “Madh-o-Jazr” and is famous for ghazals of love and loss?
A) Mir Taqi Mir
B) Ghalib
C) Iqbal
D) Josh Malihabadi
Q15. Who wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude”?
A) Mario Vargas Llosa
B) Gabriel García Márquez
C) Isabel Allende
D) Jorge Luis Borges
Q16. Which playwright wrote “Hamlet”?
A) Christopher Marlowe
B) Ben Jonson
C) William Shakespeare
D) John Webster
Q17. The “Divine Comedy” was written by which poet?
A) Petrarch
B) Dante Alighieri
C) Boccaccio
D) Milton
Q18. Who sculpted the statue of David in Florence?
A) Donatello
B) Michelangelo
C) Bernini
D) Rodin
Q19. Which author wrote “The Great Gatsby”?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) John Steinbeck
D) William Faulkner
Q20. Which form of Japanese poetry has five, seven and five syllables?
A) Tanka
B) Haiku
C) Renga
D) Senryu

Explained Answers
Q1 – B) Jane Austen. Jane Austen wrote “Pride and Prejudice”.
Q2 – B) T. S. Eliot. T. S. Eliot wrote “The Waste Land”.
Q3 – C) Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci painted the “Mona Lisa”.
Q4 – B) Leo Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy wrote “War and Peace”.
Q5 – B) Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes.
Q6 – B) Homer. Homer is credited with “The Odyssey”.
Q7 – C) Cubism. Picasso was a leading figure in Cubism.
Q8 – B) Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe wrote “Things Fall Apart”.
Q9 – B) Allama Iqbal. Allama Iqbal is regarded as the national poet of Pakistan.
Q10 – A) Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes wrote “Don Quixote”.
Q11 – C) Mozart. Mozart composed “The Magic Flute”.
Q12 – B) A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens opens that novel with the famous contrast of times.
Q13 – C) Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh painted “The Starry Night”.
Q14 – A) Mir Taqi Mir. Mir Taqi Mir is celebrated for ghazals of love, loss and melancholy.
Q15 – B) Gabriel García Márquez. García Márquez wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.
Q16 – C) William Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote “Hamlet”.
Q17 – B) Dante Alighieri. Dante wrote the “Divine Comedy”.
Q18 – B) Michelangelo. Michelangelo sculpted the David in Florence.
Q19 – B) F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald wrote “The Great Gatsby”.
Q20 – B) Haiku. A haiku follows a five-seven-five syllable pattern.

Weak-Section Review
Which questions did you miss? Write each one down with the correct answer and one line explaining why.

• Novels: Austen = Pride and Prejudice, Tolstoy = War and Peace, Dickens = A Tale of Two Cities, Fitzgerald = The Great Gatsby, Achebe = Things Fall Apart, García Márquez = One Hundred Years of Solitude, Cervantes = Don Quixote, Conan Doyle = Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare = Hamlet.
• Poetry and drama: Eliot = The Waste Land, Homer = The Odyssey, Dante = Divine Comedy, Iqbal = national poet of Pakistan, Mir = ghazals of love and loss, haiku = five-seven-five.
• Visual art and music: Leonardo = Mona Lisa, Picasso = Cubism, Van Gogh = Starry Night, Michelangelo = David, Mozart = The Magic Flute.
  Re-attempt this set in 2 days.

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