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