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  • 1. American literature is a rich and diverse landscape that reflects the history, culture, and values of the United States. From the early works of Native American oral traditions to the contemporary voices of writers today, American literature has evolved and expanded to encompass a wide range of genres and styles. It explores complex themes such as identity, freedom, justice, and the American experience. The works of authors like Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison have left a lasting impact on the literary world and continue to resonate with readers worldwide.

    Who is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird?
A) Harper Lee
B) Mark Twain
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) J.D. Salinger
  • 2. Which novel opens with the line, 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) Moby-Dick
C) The Catcher in the Rye
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 3. Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Langston Hughes
C) Robert Frost
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 4. Which author is known for the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Toni Morrison
D) John Steinbeck
  • 5. Who is the author of the play A Streetcar Named Desire?
A) Arthur Miller
B) Lorraine Hansberry
C) August Wilson
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 6. Which book features the character Hester Prynne?
A) Beloved
B) Invisible Man
C) Slaughterhouse-Five
D) The Scarlet Letter
  • 7. Who wrote the poem 'Leaves of Grass'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Robert Frost
C) Langston Hughes
D) Walt Whitman
  • 8. Which author penned the novel Beloved?
A) Alice Walker
B) Toni Morrison
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Maya Angelou
  • 9. Who is the author of the short story 'The Lottery'?
A) Kurt Vonnegut
B) Shirley Jackson
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Flannery O'Connor
  • 10. In which novel does Holden Caulfield appear as the main character?
A) 1984
B) Great Expectations
C) Brave New World
D) The Catcher in the Rye
  • 11. Who is the author of the poem 'The Waste Land'?
A) E.E. Cummings
B) Robert Frost
C) Sylvia Plath
D) T.S. Eliot
  • 12. Who wrote the novel The Sun Also Rises?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) John Steinbeck
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 13. Who is the author of the poem 'Because I could not stop for Death'?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Robert Frost
D) Langston Hughes
  • 14. Which novel features the character Jay Gatsby?
A) Jane Eyre
B) Frankenstein
C) The Great Gatsby
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 15. Who wrote the play Death of a Salesman?
A) Lorraine Hansberry
B) Arthur Miller
C) Tennessee Williams
D) August Wilson
  • 16. Which author is known for the novel Invisible Man?
A) James Baldwin
B) Toni Morrison
C) Ralph Ellison
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 17. Who is the author of the novel The Bell Jar?
A) Edna St. Vincent Millay
B) Flannery O'Connor
C) Marianne Moore
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 18. Who wrote the poem 'Howl'?
A) Robert Frost
B) Langston Hughes
C) Allen Ginsberg
D) Walt Whitman
  • 19. Which author is known for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) George Orwell
C) Joseph Heller
D) Kurt Vonnegut
  • 20. In 'Walden', the protagonist lives near which pond?
A) Lake Superior
B) Walden Pond
C) Lake Michigan
D) Crystal Lake
  • 21. Which book features the character Winston Smith?
A) Brave New World
B) Animal Farm
C) 1984
D) The Catcher in the Rye
  • 22. In 'The Catcher in the Rye', what is the protagonist's name?
A) Holden Caulfield
B) Jay Gatsby
C) Atticus Finch
D) Emma Bovary
  • 23. Who wrote the play Fences?
A) Lorraine Hansberry
B) Arthur Miller
C) August Wilson
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 24. Who is the author of 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Junot Díaz
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • 25. Which author is known for the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) Ken Kesey
C) George Orwell
D) Joseph Heller
  • 26. Who is the author of 'Gone with the Wind'?
A) Harper Lee
B) Emily Brontë
C) Margaret Mitchell
D) Jane Austen
  • 27. Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) John Steinbeck
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 28. Who wrote the poem 'A Dream Deferred'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Walt Whitman
D) Maya Angelou
  • 29. Who is the author of 'Little Women'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Maya Angelou
C) Louisa May Alcott
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 30. What is the setting of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) Alabama
B) California
C) New York
D) Texas
  • 31. In 'The Great Gatsby', what is the name of the narrator?
A) Jay Gatsby
B) Nick Carraway
C) Daisy Buchanan
D) Tom Buchanan
  • 32. Who is the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) John Steinbeck
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 33. Which American author is known for the novel 'The Sound and the Fury'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Harper Lee
D) William Faulkner
  • 34. Who is the author of 'Americanah'?
A) Salman Rushdie
B) Jhumpa Lahiri
C) Junot Díaz
D) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • 35. Who wrote 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Emily Dickinson
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Langston Hughes
  • 36. Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
A) Mark Twain
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Henry David Thoreau
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 37. What is the pen name of William Sydney Porter?
A) James Baldwin
B) Ray Bradbury
C) T.S. Eliot
D) O. Henry
  • 38. Which novel opens with the line 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?
A) The Great Gatsby
B) A Tale of Two Cities
C) Moby Dick
D) Pride and Prejudice
  • 39. Which writer is known for works like 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Toni Morrison
C) Alice Walker
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 40. Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
A) Harriet Beecher Stowe
B) Louisa May Alcott
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Harper Lee
  • 41. Who wrote the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Robert Frost
C) Walt Whitman
D) Langston Hughes
  • 42. Which author is known for the novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Emily Dickinson
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Herman Melville
  • 43. Which author is known for the novel 'The Color Purple'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Stephen King
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Alice Walker
  • 44. What is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
A) J.K. Rowling
B) Lewis Carroll
C) Roald Dahl
D) George Orwell
  • 45. In which novel does the character Humbert Humbert appear?
A) Slaughterhouse-Five
B) The Bell Jar
C) Lolita
D) Beloved
  • 46. Who is the author of the play A Raisin in the Sun?
A) August Wilson
B) Arthur Miller
C) Tennessee Williams
D) Lorraine Hansberry
  • 47. Which literary movement is credited with rebelling against traditional literary forms?
A) Transcendentalism
B) Modernism
C) Romanticism
D) Realism
  • 48. Who is the author of the short story 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'?
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) Kurt Vonnegut
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Shirley Jackson
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