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