- 1. When was Edith Wharton born?
A) 1862
B) 1880
C) 1850
D) 1872
- 2. In which city was Edith Wharton born?
A) Boston
B) Chicago
C) Philadelphia
D) New York City
- 3. Which prestigious literary award did Edith Wharton win in 1921?
A) National Book Award
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Booker Prize
D) Nobel Prize
- 4. In which year did Edith Wharton become the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
A) 1921
B) 1940
C) 1900
D) 1980
- 5. In what year did Edith Wharton pass away?
A) 1950
B) 1985
C) 1910
D) 1937
- 6. Which of these authors was a close friend of Edith Wharton?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Henry James
- 7. Where did Edith Wharton spend much of her adult life after leaving the United States?
A) Germany
B) France
C) Italy
D) England
- 8. What was Edith Wharton's birth name before she married?
A) Edith Elizabeth Taylor
B) Edith Newbold Jones
C) Edith Mary Smith
D) Edith Anne Brown
- 9. In what year did Edith Wharton publish her first major novel, 'The House of Mirth'?
A) 1955
B) 1905
C) 1880
D) 1920
- 10. Which war influenced Edith Wharton's writing and led to her humanitarian efforts?
A) American Civil War
B) World War I
C) War of 1812
D) Vietnam War
- 11. What was the name of the estate in Massachusetts where Edith Wharton designed and built her home, The Mount?
A) Salem
B) Concord
C) Cambridge
D) Lenox
- 12. What was the title of Edith Wharton's first published book?
A) Ethan Frome
B) Summer
C) The Age of Innocence
D) The Decoration of Houses
- 13. Where did Edith Wharton spend much of her childhood and young adulthood summers?
A) Aspen, Colorado
B) Los Angeles, California
C) Miami, Florida
D) Newport, Rhode Island
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