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Influential American Authors
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  • 1. Influential American Authors include literary giants such as Mark Twain, whose works like 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' have left a lasting impact on American literature. Toni Morrison, known for her powerful storytelling and exploration of the African American experience, is another author whose work continues to shape the literary landscape. F. Scott Fitzgerald, with 'The Great Gatsby', and Emily Dickinson, known for her distinctive poetry, are also considered influential American authors whose contributions have shaped the way we think about literature and society.

    Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Mark Twain
C) Harper Lee
D) John Steinbeck
  • 2. Which American author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Ray Bradbury
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Toni Morrison
  • 3. Who is known for writing 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Herman Melville
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Jack London
  • 4. Which author is famous for 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A) William Faulkner
B) Maya Angelou
C) Harper Lee
D) John Steinbeck
  • 5. 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was written by?
A) Mark Twain
B) Alice Walker
C) Kurt Vonnegut
D) Harper Lee
  • 6. Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) Toni Morrison
C) Ray Bradbury
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 7. Which American author wrote 'Beloved'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Toni Morrison
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 8. Who is known for 'On the Road'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Allen Ginsberg
C) Jack Kerouac
D) Truman Capote
  • 9. Which author wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Walt Whitman
D) Henry David Thoreau
  • 10. The author of 'Invisible Man' is?
A) Saul Bellow
B) Richard Wright
C) Ralph Ellison
D) Maya Angelou
  • 11. Who wrote 'The Color Purple'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Alice Walker
C) James Baldwin
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 12. The novel 'Catch-22' was written by?
A) George Orwell
B) Kurt Vonnegut
C) Hunter S. Thompson
D) Joseph Heller
  • 13. Which American author wrote 'Slaughterhouse-Five'?
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) Ken Kesey
C) Kurt Vonnegut
D) Patricia Highsmith
  • 14. Who is known for the book 'The Bell Jar'?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Alice Walker
D) Anne Sexton
  • 15. Which author is famous for 'The Sun Also Rises'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) William Faulkner
C) John Dos Passos
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 16. Who is the author of 'To the Lighthouse'?
A) Edith Wharton
B) Doris Lessing
C) Eudora Welty
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 17. 'The Jungle Book' was written by?
A) Rudyard Kipling
B) H.G. Wells
C) Jules Verne
D) Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 18. Which author is known for 'The Crucible' and 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Eugene O'Neill
B) Tennessee Williams
C) Arthur Miller
D) Thornton Wilder
  • 19. Which author wrote 'Walden' about simple living in natural surroundings?
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson
B) Walt Whitman
C) Henry David Thoreau
D) Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 20. Which author created the character Sherlock Holmes?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Arthur Conan Doyle
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Agatha Christie
  • 21. Which American author wrote 'Little Women'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Louisa May Alcott
C) Herman Melville
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 22. The author of 'Wise Blood' is
A) Carson McCullers
B) Flannery O'Connor
C) Truman Capote
D) Mary McCarthy
  • 23. Who is known for 'The Jungle'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Sinclair Lewis
C) Upton Sinclair
D) John Steinbeck
  • 24. Who penned the novel 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'?
A) Betty Smith
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Willa Cather
D) Louisa May Alcott
  • 25. Which author is famous for 'White Noise'?
A) Philip Roth
B) Thomas Pynchon
C) Thomas Wolfe
D) Don DeLillo
  • 26. Which American author is known for the 'Flowers in the Attic' series?
A) V.C. Andrews
B) Harper Lee
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Stephen King
  • 27. Who penned 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'?
A) Joseph Heller
B) Ray Bradbury
C) Ken Kesey
D) Douglas Adams
  • 28. Who wrote 'The Raven' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Herman Melville
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 29. Which American author is known for 'The Sound and the Fury'?
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) Truman Capote
C) Carson McCullers
D) William Faulkner
  • 30. The author of 'In Cold Blood' is
A) Ray Bradbury
B) Flannery O'Connor
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Truman Capote
  • 31. Who is known for 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'?
A) Richard Powers
B) Paul Auster
C) Jonathan Franzen
D) Michael Chabon
  • 32. Who is known for 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Alice Walker
C) Toni Morrison
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 33. The author of 'My Ántonia' is
A) Willa Cather
B) Louise Erdrich
C) Edith Wharton
D) Toni Morrison
  • 34. 'The House of Mirth' was written by?
A) Edith Wharton
B) Kate Chopin
C) Willa Cather
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 35. Who wrote 'The Corrections'?
A) Jonathan Franzen
B) Jonathan Lethem
C) David Foster Wallace
D) Jennifer Egan
  • 36. Which author is famous for 'Middlesex'?
A) Zadie Smith
B) Dave Eggers
C) Jonathan Safran Foer
D) Jeffrey Eugenides
  • 37. The author of 'The Glass Menagerie' is
A) August Wilson
B) Arthur Miller
C) Tennessee Williams
D) Lorraine Hansberry
  • 38. Who wrote the iconic novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
A) Louisa May Alcott
B) Maya Angelou
C) Harriet Beecher Stowe
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 39. Who is the author of 'Rabbit, Run'?
A) Philip Roth
B) John Updike
C) Kurt Vonnegut
D) Tom Wolfe
  • 40. Who penned 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'?
A) Alice Walker
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Maya Angelou
D) Toni Morrison
  • 41. The author of 'The Joy Luck Club' is
A) Amy Tan
B) John Steinbeck
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Toni Morrison
  • 42. Which American author wrote 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'?
A) Taiye Selasi
B) Junot Díaz
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • 43. Which American author wrote 'The Road'?
A) Don DeLillo
B) Stephen King
C) Philip Roth
D) Cormac McCarthy
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