- 1. When was Willa Cather born?
A) November 24, 1890
B) January 12, 1863
C) August 1, 1882
D) December 7, 1873
- 2. In which U.S. state was Willa Cather born?
A) California
B) Nebraska
C) Iowa
D) Virginia
- 3. Which Pulitzer Prize winning novel did Willa Cather write?
A) O Pioneers!
B) Death Comes for the Archbishop
C) One of Ours
D) My Ántonia
- 4. Willa Cather is best known for writing novels about which region of the United States?
A) New England
B) The Pacific Northwest
C) The Great Plains
D) The Deep South
- 5. Which university did Willa Cather attend?
A) Harvard University
B) Stanford University
C) University of Nebraska
D) Yale University
- 6. What was the title of Willa Cather's first novel?
A) Sapphira and the Slave Girl
B) My Mortal Enemy
C) Alexander's Bridge
D) A Lost Lady
- 7. Where did Willa Cather spend the latter part of her life?
A) New York City
B) San Francisco
C) Boston
D) Chicago
- 8. Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in which year?
A) 1937
B) 1923
C) 1911
D) 1949
- 9. What was the title of the collection of short stories published by Willa Cather in 1932?
A) Not Under Forty
B) Obscure Destinies
C) Shadows on the Rock
D) Youth and the Bright Medusa
- 10. Willa Cather's novel 'The Song of the Lark' is about a young woman who becomes a successful:
A) Opera singer
B) Painter
C) Writer
D) Actress
- 11. Which historical figure is the subject of Willa Cather's novel 'Shadows on the Rock'?
A) Bishop Laval
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Marilyn Monroe
D) Pocahontas
- 12. Willa Cather's novel 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' is set in which U.S. state?
A) Colorado
B) New Mexico
C) Arizona
D) Utah
- 13. Which magazine did Willa Cather work for as an editor during her early career?
A) McClure's
B) The Atlantic
C) Harper's
D) The New Yorker
- 14. In which Nebraska town did Willa Cather live for a portion of her childhood?
A) Kearney
B) Red Cloud
C) Lincoln
D) Omaha
- 15. In which year did Willa Cather pass away?
A) 1960
B) 1953
C) 1972
D) 1947
- 16. Which of the following esteemed literary figures was a close friend of Willa Cather?
A) Robert Frost
B) Sarah Orne Jewett
C) Mark Twain
D) Edith Wharton
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