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