American literature
  • 1. American literature is a rich and diverse landscape that reflects the history, culture, and values of the United States. From the early works of Native American oral traditions to the contemporary voices of writers today, American literature has evolved and expanded to encompass a wide range of genres and styles. It explores complex themes such as identity, freedom, justice, and the American experience. The works of authors like Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison have left a lasting impact on the literary world and continue to resonate with readers worldwide.

    Who is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird?
A) Harper Lee
B) F. Scott Fitzgerald
C) J.D. Salinger
D) Mark Twain
  • 2. Which novel opens with the line, 'Call me Ishmael'?
A) Moby-Dick
B) The Catcher in the Rye
C) Pride and Prejudice
D) The Great Gatsby
  • 3. Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Robert Frost
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 4. Which author is known for the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
A) Toni Morrison
B) John Steinbeck
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Virginia Woolf
  • 5. Who is the author of the play A Streetcar Named Desire?
A) Lorraine Hansberry
B) Arthur Miller
C) August Wilson
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 6. Which book features the character Hester Prynne?
A) Beloved
B) The Scarlet Letter
C) Invisible Man
D) Slaughterhouse-Five
  • 7. Who wrote the poem 'Leaves of Grass'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Robert Frost
C) Walt Whitman
D) Langston Hughes
  • 8. Which author penned the novel Beloved?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Alice Walker
C) Toni Morrison
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 9. Who is the author of the short story 'The Lottery'?
A) Kurt Vonnegut
B) Flannery O'Connor
C) Shirley Jackson
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 10. In which novel does Holden Caulfield appear as the main character?
A) Great Expectations
B) 1984
C) Brave New World
D) The Catcher in the Rye
  • 11. Who is the author of the poem 'The Waste Land'?
A) Robert Frost
B) E.E. Cummings
C) T.S. Eliot
D) Sylvia Plath
  • 12. Who wrote the novel The Sun Also Rises?
A) Virginia Woolf
B) John Steinbeck
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Ernest Hemingway
  • 13. Who is the author of the poem 'Because I could not stop for Death'?
A) Walt Whitman
B) Langston Hughes
C) Emily Dickinson
D) Robert Frost
  • 14. Which novel features the character Jay Gatsby?
A) Pride and Prejudice
B) The Great Gatsby
C) Jane Eyre
D) Frankenstein
  • 15. Who wrote the play Death of a Salesman?
A) Arthur Miller
B) Tennessee Williams
C) August Wilson
D) Lorraine Hansberry
  • 16. Which author is known for the novel Invisible Man?
A) Ralph Ellison
B) James Baldwin
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Toni Morrison
  • 17. Who is the author of the novel The Bell Jar?
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) Marianne Moore
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • 18. Who wrote the poem 'Howl'?
A) Robert Frost
B) Allen Ginsberg
C) Walt Whitman
D) Langston Hughes
  • 19. Which author is known for the novel Slaughterhouse-Five?
A) Ray Bradbury
B) Joseph Heller
C) George Orwell
D) Kurt Vonnegut
  • 20. Who is the author of the play A Raisin in the Sun?
A) Tennessee Williams
B) Lorraine Hansberry
C) Arthur Miller
D) August Wilson
  • 21. Who wrote the poem 'The Road Not Taken'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Langston Hughes
C) Robert Frost
D) Walt Whitman
  • 22. Which author is known for the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
A) Joseph Heller
B) George Orwell
C) Ray Bradbury
D) Ken Kesey
  • 23. Who wrote the play Fences?
A) Arthur Miller
B) August Wilson
C) Lorraine Hansberry
D) Tennessee Williams
  • 24. In which novel does the character Humbert Humbert appear?
A) The Bell Jar
B) Beloved
C) Lolita
D) Slaughterhouse-Five
  • 25. Who is the author of the short story 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'?
A) Flannery O'Connor
B) Ray Bradbury
C) Shirley Jackson
D) Kurt Vonnegut
  • 26. Which book features the character Winston Smith?
A) The Catcher in the Rye
B) Animal Farm
C) Brave New World
D) 1984
  • 27. Which novel opens with the line 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?
A) Moby Dick
B) The Great Gatsby
C) Pride and Prejudice
D) A Tale of Two Cities
  • 28. Who wrote 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?
A) Langston Hughes
B) Mark Twain
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Emily Dickinson
  • 29. In 'The Catcher in the Rye', what is the protagonist's name?
A) Holden Caulfield
B) Jay Gatsby
C) Atticus Finch
D) Emma Bovary
  • 30. Who is the author of 'Little Women'?
A) Louisa May Alcott
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) Sylvia Plath
D) Maya Angelou
  • 31. In 'The Great Gatsby', what is the name of the narrator?
A) Daisy Buchanan
B) Jay Gatsby
C) Tom Buchanan
D) Nick Carraway
  • 32. Which author is known for the novel 'The Color Purple'?
A) Alice Walker
B) Herman Melville
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) Stephen King
  • 33. What is the pen name of William Sydney Porter?
A) O. Henry
B) T.S. Eliot
C) James Baldwin
D) Ray Bradbury
  • 34. In 'Walden', the protagonist lives near which pond?
A) Lake Superior
B) Crystal Lake
C) Walden Pond
D) Lake Michigan
  • 35. Who wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Mark Twain
C) Nathaniel Hawthorne
D) Henry David Thoreau
  • 36. Which author is known for the novel 'Moby Dick'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Langston Hughes
C) Herman Melville
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 37. Which American author is known for the novel 'The Sound and the Fury'?
A) John Steinbeck
B) Harper Lee
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) William Faulkner
  • 38. Who is the author of 'Gone with the Wind'?
A) Margaret Mitchell
B) Emily Brontë
C) Harper Lee
D) Jane Austen
  • 39. Who wrote the poem 'A Dream Deferred'?
A) Emily Dickinson
B) Maya Angelou
C) Langston Hughes
D) Walt Whitman
  • 40. What is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
A) George Orwell
B) Lewis Carroll
C) J.K. Rowling
D) Roald Dahl
  • 41. Who is the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A) Ernest Hemingway
B) J.D. Salinger
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) John Steinbeck
  • 42. What is the setting of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A) New York
B) California
C) Alabama
D) Texas
  • 43. Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
A) Louisa May Alcott
B) Harper Lee
C) Zora Neale Hurston
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • 44. Which writer is known for works like 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'?
A) Alice Walker
B) Maya Angelou
C) Toni Morrison
D) Zora Neale Hurston
  • 45. Which literary movement is credited with rebelling against traditional literary forms?
A) Transcendentalism
B) Romanticism
C) Realism
D) Modernism
  • 46. Who is the author of 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao'?
A) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B) Jhumpa Lahiri
C) Salman Rushdie
D) Junot Díaz
  • 47. Who is the author of 'Americanah'?
A) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B) Junot Díaz
C) Jhumpa Lahiri
D) Salman Rushdie
  • 48. Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B) Ernest Hemingway
C) John Steinbeck
D) Mark Twain
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