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