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