- 1. When was Edith Wharton born?
A) 1872
B) 1880
C) 1862
D) 1850
- 2. In which city was Edith Wharton born?
A) Boston
B) Chicago
C) Philadelphia
D) New York City
- 3. Which prestigious literary award did Edith Wharton win in 1921?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) Booker Prize
C) National Book Award
D) Nobel Prize
- 4. In which year did Edith Wharton become the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
A) 1921
B) 1940
C) 1900
D) 1980
- 5. In what year did Edith Wharton pass away?
A) 1937
B) 1950
C) 1985
D) 1910
- 6. Which of these authors was a close friend of Edith Wharton?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Henry James
D) Virginia Woolf
- 7. Where did Edith Wharton spend much of her adult life after leaving the United States?
A) Italy
B) England
C) France
D) Germany
- 8. What was Edith Wharton's birth name before she married?
A) Edith Elizabeth Taylor
B) Edith Newbold Jones
C) Edith Mary Smith
D) Edith Anne Brown
- 9. In what year did Edith Wharton publish her first major novel, 'The House of Mirth'?
A) 1880
B) 1955
C) 1920
D) 1905
- 10. Which war influenced Edith Wharton's writing and led to her humanitarian efforts?
A) War of 1812
B) Vietnam War
C) American Civil War
D) World War I
- 11. What was the name of the estate in Massachusetts where Edith Wharton designed and built her home, The Mount?
A) Concord
B) Salem
C) Cambridge
D) Lenox
- 12. What was the title of Edith Wharton's first published book?
A) Ethan Frome
B) The Decoration of Houses
C) The Age of Innocence
D) Summer
- 13. Where did Edith Wharton spend much of her childhood and young adulthood summers?
A) Los Angeles, California
B) Miami, Florida
C) Newport, Rhode Island
D) Aspen, Colorado
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