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