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