Influential American Authors
  • 1. Influential American Authors include literary giants such as Mark Twain, whose works like 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' have left a lasting impact on American literature. Toni Morrison, known for her powerful storytelling and exploration of the African American experience, is another author whose work continues to shape the literary landscape. F. Scott Fitzgerald, with 'The Great Gatsby', and Emily Dickinson, known for her distinctive poetry, are also considered influential American authors whose contributions have shaped the way we think about literature and society.

    Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Mark Twain
D) Harper Lee
  • 2. Which American author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Ray Bradbury
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 3. Who is known for writing 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Herman Melville
D) Jack London
  • 4. Which author is famous for 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A) William Faulkner
B) John Steinbeck
C) Maya Angelou
D) Harper Lee
  • 5. 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was written by?
A) Kurt Vonnegut
B) Alice Walker
C) Harper Lee
D) Mark Twain
  • 6. Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Toni Morrison
D) J.D. Salinger
  • 7. Which American author wrote 'Beloved'?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Toni Morrison
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 8. Who is known for 'On the Road'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Truman Capote
C) Jack Kerouac
D) Allen Ginsberg
  • 9. Which author wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Walt Whitman
  • 10. The author of 'Invisible Man' is?
A) Richard Wright
B) Saul Bellow
C) Maya Angelou
D) Ralph Ellison
  • 11. Who wrote 'The Color Purple'?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Alice Walker
C) Langston Hughes
D) James Baldwin
  • 12. The novel 'Catch-22' was written by?
A) Hunter S. Thompson
B) Kurt Vonnegut
C) George Orwell
D) Joseph Heller
  • 13. Which American author wrote 'Slaughterhouse-Five'?
A) Patricia Highsmith
B) Kurt Vonnegut
C) Ken Kesey
D) Flannery O'Connor
  • 14. Who is known for the book 'The Bell Jar'?
A) Anne Sexton
B) Maya Angelou
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Alice Walker
  • 15. Which author is famous for 'The Sun Also Rises'?
A) William Faulkner
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) John Dos Passos
  • 16. Who is the author of 'To the Lighthouse'?
A) Doris Lessing
B) Eudora Welty
C) Edith Wharton
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 17. 'The Jungle Book' was written by?
A) Jules Verne
B) Robert Louis Stevenson
C) H.G. Wells
D) Rudyard Kipling
  • 18. Which author is known for 'The Crucible' and 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Thornton Wilder
B) Tennessee Williams
C) Eugene O'Neill
D) Arthur Miller
  • 19. Which author wrote 'Walden' about simple living in natural surroundings?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Henry David Thoreau
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 20. Which author created the character Sherlock Holmes?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Agatha Christie
C) Arthur Conan Doyle
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 21. Which American author wrote 'Little Women'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Herman Melville
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Louisa May Alcott
  • 22. The author of 'Wise Blood' is
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) Mary McCarthy
C) Carson McCullers
D) Truman Capote
  • 23. Who is known for 'The Jungle'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Sinclair Lewis
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Upton Sinclair
  • 24. Who penned the novel 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'?
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Louisa May Alcott
C) Betty Smith
D) Willa Cather
  • 25. Which author is famous for 'White Noise'?
A) Don DeLillo
B) Thomas Pynchon
C) Thomas Wolfe
D) Philip Roth
  • 26. Which American author is known for the 'Flowers in the Attic' series?
A) V.C. Andrews
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Stephen King
D) Harper Lee
  • 27. Who penned 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) Joseph Heller
C) Douglas Adams
D) Ken Kesey
  • 28. Who wrote 'The Raven' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Herman Melville
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 29. Which American author is known for 'The Sound and the Fury'?
A) Truman Capote
B) William Faulkner
C) Carson McCullers
D) Flannery O'Connor
  • 30. The author of 'In Cold Blood' is
A) Truman Capote
B) Flannery O'Connor
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 31. Who is known for 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'?
A) Paul Auster
B) Richard Powers
C) Michael Chabon
D) Jonathan Franzen
  • 32. Who is known for 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'?
A) Alice Walker
B) Toni Morrison
C) Maya Angelou
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 33. The author of 'My Ántonia' is
A) Edith Wharton
B) Willa Cather
C) Louise Erdrich
D) Toni Morrison
  • 34. 'The House of Mirth' was written by?
A) Kate Chopin
B) Willa Cather
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Edith Wharton
  • 35. Who wrote 'The Corrections'?
A) Jennifer Egan
B) Jonathan Franzen
C) Jonathan Lethem
D) David Foster Wallace
  • 36. Which author is famous for 'Middlesex'?
A) Jonathan Safran Foer
B) Jeffrey Eugenides
C) Zadie Smith
D) Dave Eggers
  • 37. The author of 'The Glass Menagerie' is
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Arthur Miller
C) August Wilson
D) Lorraine Hansberry
  • 38. Who wrote the iconic novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Harriet Beecher Stowe
D) Louisa May Alcott
  • 39. Who is the author of 'Rabbit, Run'?
A) Philip Roth
B) Kurt Vonnegut
C) John Updike
D) Tom Wolfe
  • 40. Who penned 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'?
A) Alice Walker
B) Maya Angelou
C) Toni Morrison
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 41. The author of 'The Joy Luck Club' is
A) Zora Neale Hurston
B) Amy Tan
C) John Steinbeck
D) Toni Morrison
  • 42. Which American author wrote 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'?
A) Junot Díaz
B) Jhumpa Lahiri
C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
D) Taiye Selasi
  • 43. Which American author wrote 'The Road'?
A) Philip Roth
B) Don DeLillo
C) Cormac McCarthy
D) Stephen King
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