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