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