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