Trivia Quiz on American Literature Part 2

1. Who wrote the Uncle Remus tales

A) Mark Twain

B) Joel chandler harris

C) Charles Dickens

D) Harriet Beecher Stowe

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2. Isaiah Sellers did it before Samuel Clements - did what

A) Wrote under the pen name 'Sellers Twain' before Clemens

B) Sailed the Mississippi as a riverboat pilot before Clemens

C) Used Mark Twain

D) Co-authored a book with a famous author named Twain

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3. Who wrote the novel 'Little Women'

A) Jane Austen

B) Charlotte Brontë

C) Louisa may alcott

D) Mark Twain

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4. Who wrote the novel Invisible Man in 1952

A) Ralph Waldo Emerson

B) Ralph Ellison

C) George Orwell

D) James Joyce

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5. Who was the author of 'Of Mice and Men'

A) John Steinbeck

B) Ernest Hemingway

C) F. Scott Fitzgerald

D) William Faulkner

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6. Which author wrote the four best-selling crime novels known as "The LA Quartet"

A) Raymond Chandler

B) Dashiell Hammett

C) James Ellroy

D) Michael Connelly

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7. Minnelli who wrote "moby dick"

A) Herman Meville

B) Herbert Melville

C) Herman melville

D) George Melville

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8. Who wrote the novel Ben Hur

A) Victor Hugo

B) Charles Dickens

C) Lew Wallace

D) Mark Twain

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9. Who born US Edu UK Expelled West Point Died Baltimore 40

A) Edgar Alen Poe

B) Nathaniel Hawthorne

C) Washington Irving

D) Mark Twain

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10. Edgar Allen Poe wrote a famous poem about his animal

A) The Black Cat

B) Raven

C) Annabel Lee

D) Lenore

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11. Who wrote The Witches of Eastwick

A) John Updike

B) Stephen King

C) Margaret Atwood

D) Ray Bradbury

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12. Which authors personal publishing venture is Philtrum Press

A) George R. R. Martin

B) Steven King

C) Neil Gaiman

D) Haruki Murakami

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13. Hemmingway's Old Man and the Sea is set in which country

A) Mexico

B) Spain

C) Cuba

D) United States

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14. Who coined the term gossip column

A) Mark Twain

B) Horace Greeley

C) Nellie Bly

D) Damon Runyon

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15. Who created philip marlowe

A) Dashiell Hammett

B) Raymond chandler

C) Erle Stanley Gardner

D) Agatha Christie

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16. What is the title of the sequel to the book Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos

A) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

B) Gentlemen marry brunettes

C) Ladies Prefer Blondes

D) Gentlemen Marry Blondes

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17. In the book Little Women what is the sisters surname

A) Alcott

B) Laurence

C) March

D) Marchant

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18. Whose last unfinished novel was The Last Tycoon

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) F Scott Fitzgerald

C) Thomas Wolfe

D) John Steinbeck

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19. During which conflict is The Caine Mutiny' set?

A) World War I

B) World War 2

C) Korean War

D) Napoleonic Wars

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20. Which popular poem was alternatively known as A Visit from St Nicholas? '

A) The Raven

B) Ozymandias

C) Twas The Night before Christmas

D) The Road Not Taken

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21. Clement C. Moore wrote a very famous Christmas poem What was it called?

A) A Visit from St. Nicholas

B) Twas The Night Before Christmas

C) The Night Before Christmas

D) Jingle Bells

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22. Which Margaret Mitchell novel, later a successful film, won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize?

A) The Scarlet Letter

B) Gone With The Wind

C) Rhett's Reckoning

D) Wind Across the Carolinas

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23. The Halloween Tree' is a 1972 fantasy novel by which American author

A) Ray Bradbury

B) Stephen King

C) Edgar Allan Poe

D) H. P. Lovecraft

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24. Who Wrote The 1951 Novel The Catcher in the Rye?

A) George Orwell

B) Harper Lee

C) J.D Salinger

D) F. Scott Fitzgerald

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25. "Which Christmas poem does this line belong to? ""With peace on earth, good-will to men!"" (""Christmas Bells"", ""The 3 Kings"", ""A Christmas Carol"", ""Nativity"" "

A) Christmas Bells

B) The 3 Kings

C) A Christmas Carol

D) Nativity

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26. Which Author Wrote The Sound & The Fury, The Wild Palms, And As I Lay Dying

A) William Faulkner

B) Ernest Hemingway

C) James Joyce

D) John Steinbeck

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27. What Are The March Sisters Names In Louisa M Alcotts (Little Woman)

A) Jo, Meg Beth & Amy

B) Meg, Jo, Beth & Amy

C) Jo, Beth, Amy

D) Jo, Meg, Amy, Beth

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28. Who Wrote The Books (The Firm) And (The Pelican Brief) Both Of Which Were Made Into Films?

A) John Grisham

B) Scott Turow

C) Michael Crichton

D) James Patterson

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29. Name the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'

A) George Orwell

B) J.D. Salinger

C) Harper Lee

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30. How is Samuel Clemens better known ?

A) Mark Twain

B) Samuel L. Clemens

C) Tom Sawyer

D) Huckleberry Finn

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31. Who Was Samuel Clemens Better Known As

A) Samuel Clemens

B) Mark Twain

C) Langhorne Clemens

D) Mark E. Twain

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32. Who wrote 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?

A) Mark Twain

B) F. Scott Fitzgerald

C) Harper Lee

D) John Steinbeck

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33. Who Penned the Novel 'The Pelican Brief'' That Was Made Into A Film Starring Julia Roberts And Denzil Washington?

A) Michael Crichton

B) Dan Brown

C) Scott Turow

D) John Grisham

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34. Who Told Stories About Brer Rabbit & Brer Fox

A) Aesop

B) Joel Chandler Harris

C) The Brothers Grimm

D) Uncle Remus

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35. Whose First Collection Of Short Stories Entitled In Our Time Was Published In 1925

A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) T. S. Eliot

C) Ernest Hemmingway

D) James Joyce

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36. Stephen King's: "The Dead ________".

A) Heat

B) Light

C) Eye

D) Zone

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37. Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?

A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) Ernest Hemingway

C) John Steinbeck

D) George Orwell

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38. Who Wrote The Novel 'Silence Of The Lambs''?

A) Stephen King

B) Dan Brown

C) Patricia Cornwell

D) Thomas Harris

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39. Edgar Allen Poe wrote a famous poem about this animal.

A) Crow

B) Owl

C) Dove

D) Raven

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40. The ____ generation included such authors as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg.

A) Lost

B) Harlem Renaissance

C) Modernist

D) Beat

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41. Which American Author Wrote The Novel (Roots)

A) Toni Morrison

B) James Michener

C) Alex Haley

D) Harper Lee

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42. What Creatures Does Captain Ahab Become Obsessed With

A) The Kraken

B) Leviathan

C) Moby Dick, Great White Whale

D) Giant Squid

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43. Who Wrote The Novels Slaughterhouse Five And Breakfast Of Champions

A) Kurt Vonnegut

B) George Orwell

C) Ray Bradbury

D) Joseph Heller

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44. Who wrote 'Gone With The Wind'?

A) Harper Lee

B) Margaret Mitchell

C) Jane Austen

D) Charles Dickens

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45. Who wrote "Ender's Game" ?

A) Isaac Asimov

B) Frank Herbert

C) Arthur C. Clarke

D) Orson Scott Card

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46. Which Tennesee Williams play is about a Sicilian-American woman?

A) A Streetcar Named Desire

B) The Rose Tattoo

C) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

D) The Glass Menagerie

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47. Who Wrote (Gone With The Wind)

A) Harper Lee

B) Jane Austen

C) Margaret Mitchell

D) Charles Dickens

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48. Faulkner penned this book with 4 distinctive sections: the Benjy section, Quentin's section, Jason and then Dilsey's sections.

A) As I Lay Dying

B) Light in August

C) Absalom, Absalom!

D) The Sound and the Fury

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49. Author of such works as Gravity's Rainbow, V, The Crying of Lot 49 and most recently, Mason & Dixon?

A) Thomas Pynchon

B) Don DeLillo

C) David Foster Wallace

D) William Gibson

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50. Who Wrote The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

A) Mark Twain

B) Ernest Hemingway

C) Charles Dickens

D) Jane Austen

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