UTME Literature Questions and Answers

UTME Literature Questions and Answers

Here are 20 UTME Literature questions along with the options and correct answers:

Who is the author of the novel "Things Fall Apart"?

A) Chinua Achebe

B) Wole Soyinka

C) Buchi Emecheta

D) Ben Okri

Correct answer: A) Chinua Achebe

Which of the following is a play written by William Shakespeare?

A) Animal Farm

B) Jane Eyre

C) Macbeth

D) To Kill a Mockingbird

Correct answer: C) Macbeth

The poem "The Waste Land" was written by:

A) William Wordsworth

B) T.S. Eliot

C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D) John Keats

Correct answer: B) T.S. Eliot

In the novel "Pride and Prejudice," who is the author?

A) Jane Austen

B) Charles Dickens

C) Charlotte Brontë

D) Virginia Woolf

Correct answer: A) Jane Austen

"Things Fall Apart" is set in which country?

A) Kenya

B) Nigeria

C) South Africa

D) Ghana

Correct answer: B) Nigeria

Which of the following is a tragedy written by Sophocles?

A) Oedipus Rex

B) Paradise Lost

C) The Canterbury Tales

D) The Great Gatsby

Correct answer: A) Oedipus Rex

Who is the author of the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

A) Harper Lee

B) J.D. Salinger

C) F. Scott Fitzgerald

D) Mark Twain

Correct answer: A) Harper Lee

The poem "Daffodils" was written by:

A) John Keats

B) William Wordsworth

C) Percy Bysshe Shelley

D) Lord Byron

Correct answer: B) William Wordsworth

The play "Death of a Salesman" was written by:

A) Arthur Miller

B) Tennessee Williams

C) Eugene O'Neill

D) Arthur Conan Doyle

Correct answer: A) Arthur Miller

Who is the author of the novel "Jane Eyre"?

A) Charlotte Brontë

B) Emily Brontë

C) Anne Brontë

D) Virginia Woolf

Correct answer: A) Charlotte Brontë

The poem "If" was written by:

A) William Wordsworth

B) John Keats

C) Rudyard Kipling

D) William Shakespeare

Correct answer: C) Rudyard Kipling

The play "Hamlet" was written by:

A) William Shakespeare

B) George Bernard Shaw

C) Henrik Ibsen

D) Oscar Wilde

Correct answer: A) William Shakespeare

"The Catcher in the Rye" is a novel written by:

A) J.D. Salinger

B) Harper Lee

C) Ernest Hemingway

D) F. Scott Fitzgerald

Correct answer: A) J.D. Salinger

The novel "1984" was written by:

A) George Orwell

B) Aldous Huxley

C) Ray Bradbury

D) Margaret Atwood

Correct answer: A) George Orwell

Who is the author of the play "Romeo and Juliet"?

A) William Shakespeare

B) Oscar Wilde

C) Anton Chekhov

D) Samuel Beckett

Correct answer: A) William Shakespeare

The poem "Ode to a Nightingale" was written by:

A) William Wordsworth

B) John Keats

C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D) Percy Bysshe Shelley

Correct answer: B) John Keats

Who is the author of the novel "The Great Gatsby"?

A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) Ernest Hemingway

C) J.D. Salinger

D) Harper Lee

Correct answer: A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

The play "A Doll's House" was written by:

A) Henrik Ibsen

B) Anton Chekhov

C) George Bernard Shaw

D) Arthur Miller

Correct answer: A) Henrik Ibsen

"To the Lighthouse" is a novel written by:

A) Virginia Woolf

B) Jane Austen

C) Emily Brontë

D) Charlotte Brontë

Correct answer: A) Virginia Woolf

Who is the author of the play "The Crucible"?

A) Arthur Miller

B) Tennessee Williams

C) Eugene O'Neill

D) Arthur Conan Doyle

Correct answer: A) Arthur Miller

I hope these questions help you in your preparation.