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