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