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