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