- 1. When was Edith Wharton born?
A) 1872
B) 1880
C) 1862
D) 1850
- 2. In which city was Edith Wharton born?
A) Chicago
B) New York City
C) Philadelphia
D) Boston
- 3. Which prestigious literary award did Edith Wharton win in 1921?
A) Booker Prize
B) Nobel Prize
C) Pulitzer Prize
D) National Book Award
- 4. In which year did Edith Wharton become the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
A) 1940
B) 1900
C) 1921
D) 1980
- 5. In what year did Edith Wharton pass away?
A) 1950
B) 1985
C) 1910
D) 1937
- 6. What was Edith Wharton's birth name before she married?
A) Edith Mary Smith
B) Edith Elizabeth Taylor
C) Edith Newbold Jones
D) Edith Anne Brown
- 7. In what year did Edith Wharton publish her first major novel, 'The House of Mirth'?
A) 1920
B) 1955
C) 1905
D) 1880
- 8. Where did Edith Wharton spend much of her childhood and young adulthood summers?
A) Newport, Rhode Island
B) Miami, Florida
C) Aspen, Colorado
D) Los Angeles, California
- 9. Which of these authors was a close friend of Edith Wharton?
A) Henry James
B) Virginia Woolf
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Ernest Hemingway
- 10. Which war influenced Edith Wharton's writing and led to her humanitarian efforts?
A) Vietnam War
B) War of 1812
C) World War I
D) American Civil War
- 11. What was the title of Edith Wharton's first published book?
A) Summer
B) The Decoration of Houses
C) The Age of Innocence
D) Ethan Frome
- 12. What was the name of the estate in Massachusetts where Edith Wharton designed and built her home, The Mount?
A) Concord
B) Cambridge
C) Lenox
D) Salem
- 13. Where did Edith Wharton spend much of her adult life after leaving the United States?
A) Italy
B) France
C) Germany
D) England
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