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