- 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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