- 1. When was Willa Cather born?
A) December 7, 1873
B) November 24, 1890
C) August 1, 1882
D) January 12, 1863
- 2. In which U.S. state was Willa Cather born?
A) Virginia
B) Nebraska
C) California
D) Iowa
- 3. Which Pulitzer Prize winning novel did Willa Cather write?
A) One of Ours
B) O Pioneers!
C) Death Comes for the Archbishop
D) My Ántonia
- 4. Willa Cather is best known for writing novels about which region of the United States?
A) The Great Plains
B) The Pacific Northwest
C) New England
D) The Deep South
- 5. Which university did Willa Cather attend?
A) University of Nebraska
B) Harvard University
C) Stanford University
D) Yale University
- 6. What was the title of Willa Cather's first novel?
A) A Lost Lady
B) My Mortal Enemy
C) Sapphira and the Slave Girl
D) Alexander's Bridge
- 7. Where did Willa Cather spend the latter part of her life?
A) New York City
B) San Francisco
C) Chicago
D) Boston
- 8. Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in which year?
A) 1937
B) 1923
C) 1911
D) 1949
- 9. What was the title of the collection of short stories published by Willa Cather in 1932?
A) Youth and the Bright Medusa
B) Shadows on the Rock
C) Obscure Destinies
D) Not Under Forty
- 10. Willa Cather's novel 'The Song of the Lark' is about a young woman who becomes a successful:
A) Opera singer
B) Actress
C) Writer
D) Painter
- 11. Which historical figure is the subject of Willa Cather's novel 'Shadows on the Rock'?
A) Bishop Laval
B) Marilyn Monroe
C) Pocahontas
D) Abraham Lincoln
- 12. Willa Cather's novel 'Death Comes for the Archbishop' is set in which U.S. state?
A) Arizona
B) Colorado
C) Utah
D) New Mexico
- 13. Which magazine did Willa Cather work for as an editor during her early career?
A) The New Yorker
B) The Atlantic
C) Harper's
D) McClure's
- 14. In which Nebraska town did Willa Cather live for a portion of her childhood?
A) Lincoln
B) Omaha
C) Kearney
D) Red Cloud
- 15. In which year did Willa Cather pass away?
A) 1953
B) 1972
C) 1947
D) 1960
- 16. Which of the following esteemed literary figures was a close friend of Willa Cather?
A) Mark Twain
B) Sarah Orne Jewett
C) Edith Wharton
D) Robert Frost
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