American literature - Quiz
  • 1. American literature is a rich and diverse landscape that reflects the history, culture, and values of the United States. From the early works of Native American oral traditions to the contemporary voices of writers today, American literature has evolved and expanded to encompass a wide range of genres and styles. It explores complex themes such as identity, freedom, justice, and the American experience. The works of authors like Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison have left a lasting impact on the literary world and continue to resonate with readers worldwide.

    Who is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird?
A) Harper Lee
B) J.D. Salinger
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Mark Twain
  • 2. Which novel opens with the line, 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) Pride and Prejudice
C) Moby-Dick
D) The Catcher in the Rye
  • 3. Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Langston Hughes
C) Robert Frost
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 4. Which author is known for the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Toni Morrison
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 5. Who is the author of the play A Streetcar Named Desire?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Lorraine Hansberry
C) Arthur Miller
D) August Wilson
  • 6. Which book features the character Hester Prynne?
A) Beloved
B) Invisible Man
C) Slaughterhouse-Five
D) The Scarlet Letter
  • 7. Who wrote the poem 'Leaves of Grass'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Robert Frost
C) Walt Whitman
D) Langston Hughes
  • 8. Which author penned the novel Beloved?
A) Alice Walker
B) Toni Morrison
C) Maya Angelou
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 9. Who is the author of the short story 'The Lottery'?
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) Kurt Vonnegut
C) Shirley Jackson
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 10. In which novel does Holden Caulfield appear as the main character?
A) Brave New World
B) The Catcher in the Rye
C) 1984
D) Great Expectations
  • 11. Who is the author of the poem 'The Waste Land'?
A) E.E. Cummings
B) T.S. Eliot
C) Robert Frost
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 12. Who wrote the novel The Sun Also Rises?
A) John Steinbeck
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 13. Who is the author of the poem 'Because I could not stop for Death'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Walt Whitman
C) Robert Frost
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 14. Which novel features the character Jay Gatsby?
A) Jane Eyre
B) Frankenstein
C) Pride and Prejudice
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 15. Who wrote the play Death of a Salesman?
A) Lorraine Hansberry
B) Arthur Miller
C) Tennessee Williams
D) August Wilson
  • 16. Which author is known for the novel Invisible Man?
A) James Baldwin
B) Toni Morrison
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Ralph Ellison
  • 17. Who is the author of the novel The Bell Jar?
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) Marianne Moore
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • 18. Who wrote the poem 'Howl'?
A) Robert Frost
B) Langston Hughes
C) Allen Ginsberg
D) Walt Whitman
  • 19. Which author is known for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five?
A) George Orwell
B) Joseph Heller
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Kurt Vonnegut
  • 20. In 'Walden', the protagonist lives near which pond?
A) Lake Michigan
B) Crystal Lake
C) Walden Pond
D) Lake Superior
  • 21. Which book features the character Winston Smith?
A) Animal Farm
B) Brave New World
C) 1984
D) The Catcher in the Rye
  • 22. In 'The Catcher in the Rye', what is the protagonist's name?
A) Emma Bovary
B) Atticus Finch
C) Jay Gatsby
D) Holden Caulfield
  • 23. Who wrote the play Fences?
A) August Wilson
B) Lorraine Hansberry
C) Tennessee Williams
D) Arthur Miller
  • 24. Who is the author of 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'?
A) Junot Díaz
B) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Salman Rushdie
  • 25. Which author is known for the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
A) George Orwell
B) Ken Kesey
C) Joseph Heller
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 26. Who is the author of 'Gone with the Wind'?
A) Margaret Mitchell
B) Jane Austen
C) Emily Brontë
D) Harper Lee
  • 27. Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Mark Twain
B) John Steinbeck
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 28. Who wrote the poem 'A Dream Deferred'?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Walt Whitman
C) Langston Hughes
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 29. Who is the author of 'Little Women'?
A) Louisa May Alcott
B) Maya Angelou
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 30. What is the setting of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Alabama
B) Texas
C) California
D) New York
  • 31. In 'The Great Gatsby', what is the name of the narrator?
A) Nick Carraway
B) Jay Gatsby
C) Tom Buchanan
D) Daisy Buchanan
  • 32. Who is the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) J.D. Salinger
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 33. Which American author is known for the novel 'The Sound and the Fury'?
A) Harper Lee
B) John Steinbeck
C) William Faulkner
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 34. Who is the author of 'Americanah'?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Junot Díaz
C) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
D) Jhumpa Lahiri
  • 35. Who wrote 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Mark Twain
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Langston Hughes
  • 36. Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Henry David Thoreau
C) Mark Twain
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 37. What is the pen name of William Sydney Porter?
A) O. Henry
B) T.S. Eliot
C) James Baldwin
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 38. Which novel opens with the line 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) A Tale of Two Cities
C) Moby Dick
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 39. Which writer is known for works like 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Alice Walker
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Toni Morrison
  • 40. Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
A) Harper Lee
B) Louisa May Alcott
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • 41. Who wrote the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Robert Frost
D) Langston Hughes
  • 42. Which author is known for the novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Emily Dickinson
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Langston Hughes
  • 43. Which author is known for the novel 'The Color Purple'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Herman Melville
C) Alice Walker
D) Stephen King
  • 44. What is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
A) Roald Dahl
B) Lewis Carroll
C) George Orwell
D) J.K. Rowling
  • 45. In which novel does the character Humbert Humbert appear?
A) Lolita
B) The Bell Jar
C) Slaughterhouse-Five
D) Beloved
  • 46. Who is the author of the play A Raisin in the Sun?
A) Arthur Miller
B) Lorraine Hansberry
C) August Wilson
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 47. Which literary movement is credited with rebelling against traditional literary forms?
A) Transcendentalism
B) Realism
C) Romanticism
D) Modernism
  • 48. Who is the author of the short story 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) Kurt Vonnegut
C) Shirley Jackson
D) Flannery O'Connor
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