Trivia Quiz on 20th Century American Literature

1. Duffy: Johnny Got His Gun

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) Dalton trumbo

C) John Steinbeck

D) George Orwell

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2. Who wrote the book Forest Gump

A) Dan Brown

B) John Grisham

C) Winston Groom

D) Margaret Mitchell

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3. Who wrote Never Love a Stranger

A) Harold Robbins

B) Danielle Steel

C) James Patterson

D) Sidney Sheldon

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4. In which novel is Phoebe Caulfield the hero's younger sister

A) Catcher in the Rye

B) The Great Gatsby

C) To Kill a Mockingbird

D) 1984

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5. Who wrote the novel "Slaughterhouse Five"

A) George Orwell

B) J. D. Salinger

C) Kurt vonnegut jr

D) Ray Bradbury

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6. Which U.S. writer wrote The Naked and the Dead

A) Joseph Heller

B) Norman Mailer

C) John Updike

D) William Styron

E) Kurt Vonnegut

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7. What American playwright titled his autobiography Timebends

A) Tennessee Williams

B) Arthur miller

C) Neil Simon

D) Edward Albee

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8. Who wrote 'across the river and into the trees'

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) F. Scott Fitzgerald

C) Ernest hemmingway

D) John Steinbeck

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9. Who wrote the book "wouldn't take nothing for my journey now"

A) Maya

B) Maya Angelou

C) Toni Morrison

D) J.K. Rowling

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10. Breakfast at Tiffanies - famous film - who wrote the book

A) Truman Capote

B) F. Scott Fitzgerald

C) Ernest Hemingway

D) Jane Austen

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11. Zelda Sayre was the wife of which U.S. novelist

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) John Steinbeck

C) William Faulkner

D) F scott fitzgerald

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12. What author criticised evangelism in his novel Elmer Gantry

A) H. L. Mencken

B) Upton Sinclair

C) Sinclair Lewis

D) George Orwell

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13. Who Wrote the Novel 'The Witching Hour'

A) Stephen King

B) J.K. Rowling

C) Anne Rice

D) Neil Gaiman

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14. Which US author penned the novels "Of Mice and Men" and "East Of Eden"?

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) John Steinbeck

C) F. Scott Fitzgerald

D) John Updike

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15. Who won a Pulitzer Prize for Angela's Ashes?

A) James Joyce

B) Toni Morrison

C) Ernest Hemingway

D) Frank McCourt

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16. Which is the only book written by Margaret Mitchell?

A) Gone With The Wind

B) Rhett Butler's People

C) Scarlett

D) The Thorn Birds

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17. Who Wrote The Novel Jaws, That Was Later Turned Into A Blockbuster Movie By Steven Spielburg

A) Peter Benchley

B) Herman Melville

C) Michael Crichton

D) Stephen King

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