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