American Literary Icons MCQs with Answer
Who wrote the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Harper Lee
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) J.D. Salinger
Answer: b) Harper Lee
Which American author is known for his dark and mysterious short stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) William Faulkner
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: b) Edgar Allan Poe
“The Great Gatsby” was written by:
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) Mark Twain
c) Toni Morrison
d) Ray Bradbury
Answer: a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote the classic novel “Moby-Dick”?
a) Herman Melville
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Louisa May Alcott
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) Herman Melville
Which American poet wrote the famous poem “The Road Not Taken?
a) Robert Frost
b) Walt Whitman
c) Langston Hughes
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: a) Robert Frost
The author of “The Catcher in the Rye” is:
a) J.D. Salinger
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Jack Kerouac
d) Kurt Vonnegut
Answer: a) J.D. Salinger
Who wrote the play “Death of a Salesman”?
a) Tennessee Williams
b) Arthur Miller
c) Eugene O’Neill
d) August Wilson
Answer: b) Arthur Miller
“Beloved” is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by:
a) Alice Walker
b) Maya Angelou
c) Toni Morrison
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: c) Toni Morrison
Which American author is known for his masterpiece “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
a) Walt Whitman
b) Mark Twain
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: b) Mark Twain
The novel “The Grapes of Wrath” was written by:
a) William Faulkner
b) John Steinbeck
c) Jack Kerouac
d) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: b) John Steinbeck
Who wrote the poem “The Raven”?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: a) Edgar Allan Poe
The author of the famous novel “Invisible Man” is:
a) Ralph Ellison
b) Richard Wright
c) Saul Bellow
d) James Baldwin
Answer: a) Ralph Ellison
“The Old Man and the Sea” was written by:
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) William Faulkner
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: a) Ernest Hemingway
Who wrote the poem “Leaves of Grass”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b) Walt Whitman
The novel “To the Lighthouse” was written by:
a) Virginia Woolf
b) Sylvia Plath
c) Edith Wharton
d) Willa Cather
Answer: a) Virginia Woolf
Who authored the novel “Slaughterhouse-Five”?
a) Kurt Vonnegut
b) J.D. Salinger
c) Jack Kerouac
d) Harper Lee
Answer: a) Kurt Vonnegut
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Color Purple” was written by:
a) Maya Angelou
b) Alice Walker
c) Toni Morrison
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: b) Alice Walker
Who is the author of the novel “The Scarlet Letter”?
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Herman Melville
c) Louisa May Alcott
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
The American poet known for her work “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is:
a) Alice Walker
b) Maya Angelou
c) Toni Morrison
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: b) Maya Angelou
Which American author wrote the play “A Streetcar Named Desire”?
a) Tennessee Williams
b) Arthur Miller
c) Eugene O’Neill
d) August Wilson
Answer: a) Tennessee Williams
Who is the author of the novel “On the Road”?
a) J.D. Salinger
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Jack Kerouac
d) Kurt Vonnegut
Answer: c) Jack Kerouac
The novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” was written by:
a) Alice Walker
b) Maya Angelou
c) Toni Morrison
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: d) Zora Neale Hurston
“The Sound and the Fury” was written by:
a) William Faulkner
b) John Steinbeck
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: a) William Faulkner
Who authored the poem “Because I could not stop for Death”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) Emily Dickinson
The novel “Go Tell It on the Mountain” was written by:
a) Ralph Ellison
b) Richard Wright
c) Saul Bellow
d) James Baldwin
Answer: d) James Baldwin
Who wrote the novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls”?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) William Faulkner
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: a) Ernest Hemingway
The American poet known for her work “Hope is the thing with feathers” is:
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) Emily Dickinson
The author of “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” is:
a) Truman Capote
b) Flannery O’Connor
c) Carson McCullers
d) J.D. Salinger
Answer: c) Carson McCullers
Who wrote the novel “The Sun Also Rises”?
a) Kurt Vonnegut
b) J.D. Salinger
c) Jack Kerouac
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: d) Ernest Hemingway
The author of the novel “The Joy Luck Club” is:
a) Amy Tan
b) Maxine Hong Kingston
c) Louise Erdrich
d) Sandra Cisneros
Answer: a) Amy Tan
Who wrote the poem “A Dream Deferred”?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Langston Hughes
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: c) Langston Hughes
The novel “Native Son” was written by:
a) Ralph Ellison
b) Richard Wright
c) Saul Bellow
d) James Baldwin
Answer: b) Richard Wright
Who is the author of the novel “The Awakening”?
a) Edith Wharton
b) Virginia Woolf
c) Sylvia Plath
d) Kate Chopin
Answer: d) Kate Chopin
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” was written by:
a) Jhumpa Lahiri
b) Junot Diaz
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Khaled Hosseini
Answer: b) Junot Diaz
Who wrote the poem “Song of Myself”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b) Walt Whitman
The novel “The Age of Innocence” was written by:
a) Edith Wharton
b) Virginia Woolf
c) Sylvia Plath
d) Kate Chopin
Answer: a) Edith Wharton
Who is the author of the novel “Cannery Row”?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) William Faulkner
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: d) John Steinbeck
The American poet known for his work “The Waste Land” is:
a) T.S. Eliot
b) Robert Frost
c) Langston Hughes
d) Walt Whitman
Answer: a) T.S. Eliot
The author of the novel “The House on Mango Street” is:
a) Amy Tan
b) Maxine Hong Kingston
c) Louise Erdrich
d) Sandra Cisneros
Answer: d) Sandra Cisneros
Who wrote the novel “The Call of the Wild”?
a) Jack London
b) Mark Twain
c) Herman Melville
d) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Answer: a) Jack London
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” was written by:
a) Michael Chabon
b) Jonathan Franzen
c) Don DeLillo
d) Junot Diaz
Answer: a) Michael Chabon
Who is the author of the novel “Gone with the Wind”?
a) Margaret Mitchell
b) Harper Lee
c) Emily Bronte
d) Jane Austen
Answer: a) Margaret Mitchell
The novel “The Old Man’s War” was written by:
a) Isaac Asimov
b) Arthur C. Clarke
c) Ray Bradbury
d) John Scalzi
Answer: d) John Scalzi
Who wrote the poem “I dwell in Possibility”?
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Walt Whitman
c) Robert Frost
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a) Emily Dickinson
The author of “In Cold Blood” is:
a) Truman Capote
b) Flannery O’Connor
c) Carson McCullers
d) J.D. Salinger
Answer: a) Truman Capote
Who wrote the novel “For Esme—with Love and Squalor”?
a) Kurt Vonnegut
b) J.D. Salinger
c) Jack Kerouac
d) Harper Lee
Answer: b) J.D. Salinger
The novel “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts” was written by:
a) Amy Tan
b) Maxine Hong Kingston
c) Louise Erdrich
d) Sandra Cisneros
Answer: b) Maxine Hong Kingston
Who is the author of the novel “The Caine Mutiny”?
a) Herman Wouk
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) John Steinbeck
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: a) Herman Wouk
The American poet known for his work “The Road Not Taken” is:
a) Robert Frost
b) Walt Whitman
c) Langston Hughes
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: a) Robert Frost
The author of the novel “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is:
a) Jhumpa Lahiri
b) Junot Diaz
c) Arundhati Roy
d) Khaled Hosseini
Answer: b) Junot Diaz