Influential American Authors
  • 1. Influential American Authors include literary giants such as Mark Twain, whose works like 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' have left a lasting impact on American literature. Toni Morrison, known for her powerful storytelling and exploration of the African American experience, is another author whose work continues to shape the literary landscape. F. Scott Fitzgerald, with 'The Great Gatsby', and Emily Dickinson, known for her distinctive poetry, are also considered influential American authors whose contributions have shaped the way we think about literature and society.

    Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Mark Twain
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Harper Lee
  • 2. Which American author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) J.D. Salinger
B) Toni Morrison
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 3. Who is known for writing 'Moby-Dick'?
A) Herman Melville
B) Jack London
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 4. Which author is famous for 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A) Maya Angelou
B) John Steinbeck
C) Harper Lee
D) William Faulkner
  • 5. 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was written by?
A) Harper Lee
B) Alice Walker
C) Kurt Vonnegut
D) Mark Twain
  • 6. Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) Ray Bradbury
D) J.D. Salinger
  • 7. Which American author wrote 'Beloved'?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Toni Morrison
  • 8. Who is known for 'On the Road'?
A) Jack Kerouac
B) Allen Ginsberg
C) Truman Capote
D) Langston Hughes
  • 9. Which author wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Henry David Thoreau
  • 10. The author of 'Invisible Man' is?
A) Richard Wright
B) Ralph Ellison
C) Saul Bellow
D) Maya Angelou
  • 11. Who wrote 'The Color Purple'?
A) Alice Walker
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Langston Hughes
D) James Baldwin
  • 12. The novel 'Catch-22' was written by?
A) Kurt Vonnegut
B) George Orwell
C) Joseph Heller
D) Hunter S. Thompson
  • 13. Which American author wrote 'Slaughterhouse-Five'?
A) Ken Kesey
B) Flannery O'Connor
C) Kurt Vonnegut
D) Patricia Highsmith
  • 14. Who is known for the book 'The Bell Jar'?
A) Anne Sexton
B) Sylvia Plath
C) Maya Angelou
D) Alice Walker
  • 15. Which author is famous for 'The Sun Also Rises'?
A) William Faulkner
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) John Dos Passos
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 16. Who is the author of 'To the Lighthouse'?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) Doris Lessing
C) Eudora Welty
D) Edith Wharton
  • 17. 'The Jungle Book' was written by?
A) Robert Louis Stevenson
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) Jules Verne
D) H.G. Wells
  • 18. Which American author wrote 'The Road'?
A) Stephen King
B) Cormac McCarthy
C) Don DeLillo
D) Philip Roth
  • 19. Which author is famous for 'White Noise'?
A) Philip Roth
B) Thomas Pynchon
C) Don DeLillo
D) Thomas Wolfe
  • 20. Who penned 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'?
A) Joseph Heller
B) Ken Kesey
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Douglas Adams
  • 21. 'The House of Mirth' was written by?
A) Sylvia Plath
B) Kate Chopin
C) Edith Wharton
D) Willa Cather
  • 22. Who is the author of 'Rabbit, Run'?
A) Tom Wolfe
B) Kurt Vonnegut
C) John Updike
D) Philip Roth
  • 23. Which American author wrote 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'?
A) Jhumpa Lahiri
B) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
C) Junot Díaz
D) Taiye Selasi
  • 24. Who is known for 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay'?
A) Paul Auster
B) Jonathan Franzen
C) Michael Chabon
D) Richard Powers
  • 25. Which author is famous for 'Middlesex'?
A) Dave Eggers
B) Jeffrey Eugenides
C) Jonathan Safran Foer
D) Zadie Smith
  • 26. Who wrote 'The Corrections'?
A) Jonathan Franzen
B) Jennifer Egan
C) David Foster Wallace
D) Jonathan Lethem
  • 27. Which author wrote 'Walden' about simple living in natural surroundings?
A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Walt Whitman
D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • 28. The author of 'The Joy Luck Club' is
A) John Steinbeck
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Amy Tan
D) Toni Morrison
  • 29. Who penned the novel 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'?
A) Betty Smith
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Willa Cather
D) Louisa May Alcott
  • 30. The author of 'The Glass Menagerie' is
A) Arthur Miller
B) August Wilson
C) Lorraine Hansberry
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 31. The author of 'Wise Blood' is
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) Carson McCullers
C) Mary McCarthy
D) Truman Capote
  • 32. Who wrote the iconic novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
A) Louisa May Alcott
B) Maya Angelou
C) Harriet Beecher Stowe
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 33. Who is known for 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Toni Morrison
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Alice Walker
  • 34. The author of 'In Cold Blood' is
A) Ray Bradbury
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) Flannery O'Connor
D) Truman Capote
  • 35. The author of 'My Ántonia' is
A) Willa Cather
B) Louise Erdrich
C) Edith Wharton
D) Toni Morrison
  • 36. Which American author is known for 'The Sound and the Fury'?
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) Carson McCullers
C) William Faulkner
D) Truman Capote
  • 37. Who penned 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'?
A) Toni Morrison
B) Alice Walker
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Maya Angelou
  • 38. Which American author is known for the 'Flowers in the Attic' series?
A) Harper Lee
B) V.C. Andrews
C) Stephen King
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 39. Which American author wrote 'Little Women'?
A) Louisa May Alcott
B) Herman Melville
C) Mark Twain
D) Edgar Allan Poe
  • 40. Which author created the character Sherlock Holmes?
A) Arthur Conan Doyle
B) Edgar Allan Poe
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Agatha Christie
  • 41. Who is known for 'The Jungle'?
A) Upton Sinclair
B) John Steinbeck
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Sinclair Lewis
  • 42. Who wrote 'The Raven' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Nathaniel Hawthorne
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Herman Melville
  • 43. Which author is known for 'The Crucible' and 'Death of a Salesman'?
A) Arthur Miller
B) Thornton Wilder
C) Tennessee Williams
D) Eugene O'Neill
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