Authors
Who was the author of The Grapes of Wrath?
A. John Dos Passos
B. Pearl S. Buck
C. John Steinbeck
C. John Steinbeck
-The Grapes of Wrath, set during the years of the Great Depression, is a famous novel by John Steinbeck.
Who wrote The Shining?
A. Stephen King
B. Stephen Foster
C. Stephen Crane
A. Stephen King
Tarzan is the hero of novels by U.S. novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan is an English nobleman’s son abandoned in a/an ______ jungle who was raised by a community of apes.
A. African
B. Pacific
C. Brazilian
A. African
What form of novel typically relates the adventures of a rogue or lowborn adventurer as he drifts from place to place in an effort to survive?
A. epic
B. sentimental novel
C. picaresque novel
C. picaresque novel
The picaresque novel is an early form of novel, usually a first-person narrative. It typically relates the adventures of a rogue or lowborn adventurer as he drifts from place to place in an effort to survive.
What was Arthur Conan Doyle’s profession (outside of his writing)?
A. doctor
B. architect
C. detective
A. doctor
He received his Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from the University of Edinburgh in 1881 and an M.D. in 1885 upon completing his thesis, “An Essay upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis.”
Who wrote Cat’s Cradle?
A. Kurt Vonnegut
B. Curtis Mayfield
C. Kurt Weill
A. Kurt Vonnegut
-Kurt Vonnegut wrote Cat’s Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and many other popular novels.
Who wrote Fahrenheit 451?
A. Ray Bradbury
B. Ray Charles
C. Raymond James
A. Ray Bradbury
- Fahrenheit 451 is a novel by Ray Bradbury. It was published in 1953.
Maya Angelou is an African American writer well known for her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged _____ Sings.
A. Cockatiel
B. Bird
C. Hummingbird
B. Bird
Which of these writers is often considered the inventor of the historical novel?
A. H.G. Wells
B. Sir Walter Scott
C. Honoré de Balzac
B. Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He is often considered the inventor of the historical novel.
Which of these books was not written by W. Somerset Maugham?
A. Of Human Bondage
B. Love in a Cold Climate
C. Cakes and Ale
B. Love in a Cold Climate
Who wrote Frankenstein?
A. Mary Martin
B. Mary Meigs
C. Mary Shelley
C. Mary Shelley
-Frankenstein, a classic of 19th-century literature, was written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Jules Verne’s first successful adventure story was Five Weeks in a Balloon, which was published in ______.
A. 1863
B. 1865
C. 1864
A. 1863
John James Audubon’s original Birds of America, which appeared serially, is often called the elephant folio because each page was more than ____ meter long and 0.6 meter wide.
A. 2
B. 4
C. 1
C. 1
Who wrote the novel I, Claudius, the autobiography Good-Bye to All That, and the scholarly work The White Goddess?
A. Muriel Spark
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Robert Graves
C. Robert Graves
The English poet, novelist, critic, and classical scholar Robert Graves wrote more than 120 books.
American author and lawyer Erle Stanley Gardner wrote nearly ___ detective and mystery novels that sold more than 1,000,000 copies each, making him easily the best-selling American writer of his time.
A. 100
B. 200
C. 300
A. 100
Who wrote Walden?
A. William Makepeace Thackeray
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Gail Walden
B. Henry David Thoreau
James Fenimore Cooper was the author of The Last of the _______ and many other books in the 19th century.
A. Mexicans
B. Mohicans
C. Brazilians
B. Mohicans
Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
A. William Golding
B. Willie Mays
C. William Styron
A. William Golding
In Lord of the Flies, (1954) William Golding explores humankind’s most basic nature and examines the role of society and civilization in our behavior.
Whose novel Death Comes for the Archbishop recounted the story of French Catholic missionaries in the southwestern United States?
A. Willa Cather’s
B. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s
C. Anne Brontë’s
A. Willa Cather’s
Willa Cather wrote of the pioneer spirit of the French Catholic missionaries in the Southwest in Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927).
Which novel by George Meredith centres on a woman’s right to be accepted as an individual?
A. The Shaving of Shagpat
B. Evan Harrington
C. The Egoist
C. The Egoist
Who wrote Life on the Mississippi?
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Mark Twain
C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Mark Twain
The author of War and Peace, set in the Napoleonic Wars, is the ______novelist and writer Leo Tolstoy.
A. Russian
B. Swedish
C. English
A. Russian
English novelist Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World _____. It portrays a society in which scientific advancement has erased individuality and free thought.|
A. 1932
B. 1942
C. 1922
A. 1932
Pearl S. Buck’s novel The Good Earth (1931) won the Pulitzer Prize in ____.
A. 1942
B. 1932
C. 1922
B. 1932
Pearl S. Buck’s novel The Good Earth (1931) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
Who among these authors wrote only one novel?
A. Emily Brontë
B. Charlotte Brontë
C. Charles Dickens
A. Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë produced only one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a novel of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors.