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