- 1. When was Edith Wharton born?
A) 1862 B) 1850 C) 1872 D) 1880
- 2. In which city was Edith Wharton born?
A) Boston B) New York City C) Chicago D) Philadelphia
- 3. Which prestigious literary award did Edith Wharton win in 1921?
A) Booker Prize B) Pulitzer Prize C) Nobel Prize D) National Book Award
- 4. In which year did Edith Wharton become the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
A) 1921 B) 1940 C) 1900 D) 1980
- 5. In what year did Edith Wharton pass away?
A) 1937 B) 1950 C) 1910 D) 1985
- 6. What was Edith Wharton's birth name before she married?
A) Edith Newbold Jones B) Edith Mary Smith C) Edith Elizabeth Taylor D) Edith Anne Brown
- 7. In what year did Edith Wharton publish her first major novel, 'The House of Mirth'?
A) 1905 B) 1955 C) 1920 D) 1880
- 8. Where did Edith Wharton spend much of her childhood and young adulthood summers?
A) Miami, Florida B) Aspen, Colorado C) Newport, Rhode Island D) Los Angeles, California
- 9. Which of these authors was a close friend of Edith Wharton?
A) Henry James B) F. Scott Fitzgerald C) Virginia Woolf D) Ernest Hemingway
- 10. Which war influenced Edith Wharton's writing and led to her humanitarian efforts?
A) World War I B) Vietnam War C) War of 1812 D) American Civil War
- 11. What was the title of Edith Wharton's first published book?
A) Ethan Frome B) Summer C) The Age of Innocence D) The Decoration of Houses
- 12. What was the name of the estate in Massachusetts where Edith Wharton designed and built her home, The Mount?
A) Concord B) Cambridge C) Lenox D) Salem
- 13. Where did Edith Wharton spend much of her adult life after leaving the United States?
A) France B) Italy C) England D) Germany
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