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