Trivia Quiz on American Literature

1. Who wrote the christmas story, "A Visit From St Nicholas"

A) Clement moore

B) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

C) Edgar Allan Poe

D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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2. Who still receives an estimated 25 pieces of junk mail per year at Walden Pond?

A) Ralph Waldo Emerson

B) Louisa May Alcott

C) John Muir

D) Thoreau

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3. Whose autobiographical novel was called The Bell Jar

A) Sylvia Plath

B) Virginia Woolf

C) Anne Frank

D) Maya Angelou

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4. Which American author wrote The turn of the Screw

A) Edgar Allan Poe

B) Nathaniel Hawthorne

C) Henry James

D) Mark Twain

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5. Who wrote The Hunt for Red October

A) Robert Ludlum

B) Michael Crichton

C) Tom clancy

D) Dan Brown

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6. By what name is Harry Angstrom known in the titles of John Updike's trilogy

A) Harry Angstrom

B) Rabbit

C) Rabbit Angstrom

D) Hap Angstrom

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7. Rene Raymond is better known as which author

A) Dashiell Hammett

B) Erle Stanley Gardner

C) James M. Cain

D) Raymond Chandler

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8. Who wrote "The Learning Tree"

A) Gordon parks jr

B) Gordon Parks

C) James Baldwin

D) John Steinbeck

E) Harper Lee

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9. Who wrote 'The Sun Also Rises'

A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) John Steinbeck

C) William Faulkner

D) Ernest hemingway

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10. Who wrote The Caine Mutiny

A) John Steinbeck

B) James Michener

C) Herman Wouk

D) Tom Clancy

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11. Who wrote the book 'Portrait of a Lady'

A) Henry James

B) Jane Austen

C) George Eliot

D) Charles Dickens

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12. What Pulitzer prize winning novelist ran for mayor of New York City

A) Philip Roth

B) Norman Mailer

C) Tom Wolfe

D) Joseph Heller

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13. William Sydney Porter is better known as who (literature)

A) Mark Twain

B) Edgar Allan Poe

C) O'Henry

D) Thomas Hardy

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14. What book starts with the words - Call me Ishmael

A) Moby Dick

B) The Great Gatsby

C) To Kill a Mockingbird

D) War and Peace

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15. Who wrote the book 'Something Happened'

A) Kurt Vonnegut

B) Joseph heller

C) George Orwell

D) Philip Roth

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16. Family lived small farm Walnut Grove Plumb Creek Minnesota

A) Ingalls - Little House on Prairie

B) Walton - The Waltons

C) Carson - Farm Life

D) Ingles - Little House on Prairie

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17. Who wrote Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn

A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) Henry Miller

C) Ernest Hemingway

D) James Joyce

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18. Who wrote 'gone with the wind'

A) Harper Lee

B) Emily Bronte

C) Margaret mitchell

D) Louise Erdrich

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19. Who was the author of catcher in the rye

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) F. Scott Fitzgerald

C) Jd salinger

D) John Steinbeck

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20. The Newbery Medal is given annually for what

A) Best Children's picture book

B) Best Young Adult novel

C) Best Children's fiction

D) Best Children's book

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21. Who wrote "Farwell to Arms"

A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) George Orwell

C) Ernest Hemingway

D) Jane Austen

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22. Name Stephen King's first published novel

A) The Shining

B) Carrie

C) Salem's Lot

D) Cujo

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23. Who wrote Gone with the Wind

A) Margaret Mitchell

B) Toni Morrison

C) Harper Lee

D) Jane Austen

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24. What was the name of the novel by Elmore Leonard on which the film, "Jackie Brown" was based

A) Get Shorty

B) Out of Sight

C) Rum Punch

D) LaBrava

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25. Who was the first novelist to present a typed manuscript to his publisher

A) Charles Dickens

B) Jane Austen

C) Mark twain

D) Victor Hugo

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26. Which American author wrote Moby Dick

A) Mark Twain

B) Nathaniel Hawthorne

C) Herman melville

D) John Steinbeck

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27. Who wrote Fahrenheit 451

A) George Orwell

B) Aldous Huxley

C) Ray bradbury

D) Jules Verne

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28. Who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea"

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) Mark Twain

C) F. Scott Fitzgerald

D) John Steinbeck

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29. Under what name is thomas lanier williams better known

A) Arthur Miller

B) Harold Pinter

C) Tennessee williams

D) George Bernard Shaw

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30. What New York City's restaurant is alluded to in many stories by Damon Runyon

A) Sardi's

B) Lindy's

C) Delmonico's

D) Katz's Delicatessen

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31. Grace Metalious wrote which famous novel (and TV show)

A) To Kill a Mockingbird

B) Peyton Place

C) The Great Gatsby

D) Gone with the Wind

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32. Which is the only book written by margaret mitchell

A) Gone with the wind

B) The Color Purple

C) To Kill a Mockingbird

D) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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33. In what book did the grinch steal christmas

A) The grinch who stole christmas

B) How the Grinch Stole Christmas

C) The Grinch's Christmas Caper

D) The Grinch and the Missing Mistletoe

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34. A story by Edgar Allan Poe___Fall of the..

A) House of usher

B) The Tell-Tale Heart

C) The Black Cat

D) The Pit and the Pendulum

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35. Who wrote Last Tango in Brooklyn his third novel

A) Mario Puzo

B) Kirk Douglas

C) Harold Robbins

D) James Ellroy

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36. J D Sallenger wrote Catcher in the Rye what's the J D stand for

A) Jonathan David

B) Jerome David

C) Jeremy Daniel

D) Joseph Douglas

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37. Who wrote "When angry, count a hundred. When very angry, swear"

A) Benjamin Franklin

B) Oscar Wilde

C) Mark twain

D) George Bernard Shaw

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38. Who wrote "the maltese falcon"

A) Raymond Chandler

B) Agatha Christie

C) James M. Cain

D) Dashiell Hammett

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39. Who wrote the novel The Last of the Mohicans, first published in 1820

A) James fenimore cooper

B) Herman Melville

C) Washington Irving

D) Sir Walter Scott

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40. Give either of poet E.E.Cummin s' christian names. edward

A) Edward

B) Estlin

C) Elisha

D) Eliot

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41. Which American, who died in 1910, wrote "Water - taken in moderation - cannot harm anybody"

A) Thomas Edison

B) Benjamin Franklin

C) Mark Twain

D) Henry Ford

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42. Duffy: A Confederacy of Dunces

A) James Joyce

B) John kennedy toole

C) Cormac McCarthy

D) Edgar Allan Poe

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43. Name the evil slave owner and villain in Harriet Becher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

A) Mr. Haley

B) Simon Legree

C) Mr. Shelby

D) St. Clare

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44. Which book begins "Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without any presents"

A) A Christmas Carol

B) The Secret Garden

C) Little women

D) The Wizard of Oz

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45. Who wrote The Last Picture Show

A) Larry McMurty

B) John Grisham

C) Cormac McCarthy

D) Tom Wolfe

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46. Who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's

A) Herman Melville

B) F. Scott Fitzgerald

C) Ernest Hemingway

D) Truman Capote

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47. "Broom" Bromden an Indian narrates which famous book

A) To Kill a Mockingbird

B) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

C) The Catcher in the Rye

D) The Grapes of Wrath

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48. The Selenas Valley was the rejected title what Steinbeck book

A) Grapes of Wrath

B) Of Mice and Men

C) East of Eden

D) Cannery Row

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49. Who is the only American author to win both the Pulitzer & Nobel prizes

A) John Steinbeck

B) Gabriel García Márquez

C) Albert Camus

D) Samuel Beckett

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50. Where was Mark Twain born

A) Hartford, Connecticut

B) Hannibal, Missouri

C) New York City, New York

D) Florida - Missouri

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