- 1. When was Willa Cather born?
A) December 7, 1873
B) August 1, 1882
C) January 12, 1863
D) November 24, 1890
- 2. In which U.S. state was Willa Cather born?
A) California
B) Iowa
C) Nebraska
D) Virginia
- 3. Which Pulitzer Prize winning novel did Willa Cather write?
A) Death Comes for the Archbishop
B) O Pioneers!
C) One of Ours
D) My Ántonia
- 4. Willa Cather is best known for writing novels about which region of the United States?
A) New England
B) The Great Plains
C) The Deep South
D) The Pacific Northwest
- 5. Which university did Willa Cather attend?
A) Harvard University
B) University of Nebraska
C) Stanford University
D) Yale University
- 6. What was the title of Willa Cather's first novel?
A) Sapphira and the Slave Girl
B) My Mortal Enemy
C) Alexander's Bridge
D) A Lost Lady
- 7. Where did Willa Cather spend the latter part of her life?
A) Boston
B) Chicago
C) San Francisco
D) New York City
- 8. Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in which year?
A) 1923
B) 1949
C) 1911
D) 1937
- 9. What was the title of the collection of short stories published by Willa Cather in 1932?
A) Youth and the Bright Medusa
B) Shadows on the Rock
C) Not Under Forty
D) Obscure Destinies
- 10. Willa Cather's novel 'The Song of the Lark' is about a young woman who becomes a successful:
A) Actress
B) Opera singer
C) Writer
D) Painter
- 11. Which historical figure is the subject of Willa Cather's novel 'Shadows on the Rock'?
A) Bishop Laval
B) Pocahontas
C) Marilyn Monroe
D) Abraham Lincoln
- 12. Willa Cather's novel 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' is set in which U.S. state?
A) Arizona
B) Utah
C) Colorado
D) New Mexico
- 13. Which magazine did Willa Cather work for as an editor during her early career?
A) The Atlantic
B) The New Yorker
C) McClure's
D) Harper's
- 14. In which Nebraska town did Willa Cather live for a portion of her childhood?
A) Omaha
B) Kearney
C) Red Cloud
D) Lincoln
- 15. In which year did Willa Cather pass away?
A) 1960
B) 1972
C) 1953
D) 1947
- 16. Which of the following esteemed literary figures was a close friend of Willa Cather?
A) Mark Twain
B) Edith Wharton
C) Sarah Orne Jewett
D) Robert Frost
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