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