US Culture MCQs

American Novels MCQs with Answer

Who wrote the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Harper Lee
c) John Steinbeck
d) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: b

Which novel features the character Jay Gatsby?
a) “The Great Gatsby”
b) “The Catcher in the Rye”
c) “Moby-Dick”
d) “Of Mice and Men”
Answer: a

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is written by:
a) J.D. Salinger
b) Mark Twain
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) Kurt Vonnegut
Answer: b

In which novel does the character Holden Caulfield appear?
a) “Brave New World
b) “The Old Man and the Sea”
c) “The Catcher in the Rye”
d) “1984”
Answer: c

“The Grapes of Wrath” was written by:
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) John Steinbeck
c) J.D. Salinger
d) Toni Morrison
Answer: b

Who is the author of “Moby-Dick?
a) Herman Melville
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer: a

The novel “The Scarlet Letter” was written by:
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Louisa May Alcott
c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
d) Herman Melville
Answer: c

Which novel is set during the Great Depression and follows two displaced ranch workers?
a) “Fahrenheit 451”
b) “Of Mice and Men”
c) “To Kill a Mockingbird”
d) “Brave New World”
Answer: b

Who wrote “The Catcher in the Rye”?
a) J.D. Salinger
b) John Steinbeck
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) Mark Twain
Answer: a

“Beloved” is a novel by which Nobel Prize-winning author?
a) Toni Morrison
b) Maya Angelou
c) Alice Walker
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: a

The novel “Gone with the Wind” was written by:
a) Margaret Atwood
b) Jane Austen
c) Harper Lee
d) Margaret Mitchell
Answer: d

One Hundred Years of Solitude” is a novel by which Latin American author?
a) Gabriel García Márquez
b) Isabel Allende
c) Julio Cortázar
d) Mario Vargas Llosa
Answer: a

Who authored the dystopian novel “1984”?
a) George Orwell
b) Aldous Huxley
c) Ray Bradbury
d) Philip K. Dick
Answer: a

The novel “Cannery Row” is written by:
a) John Updike
b) J.D. Salinger
c) John Steinbeck
d) Kurt Vonnegut
Answer: c

Who wrote the novel “The Great Gatsby”?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) J.D. Salinger
d) Mark Twain
Answer: b

“The Sun Also Rises” is a novel by which author?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) John Steinbeck
d) J.D. Salinger
Answer: a

“The Sound and the Fury” is a novel by:
a) William Faulkner
b) Jack Kerouac
c) Thomas Pynchon
d) Cormac McCarthy
Answer: a

Who wrote the novel “East of Eden”?
a) John Steinbeck
b) Kurt Vonnegut
c) Harper Lee
d) Ray Bradbury
Answer: a

The novel “Catch-22” was written by:
a) Joseph Conrad
b) Joseph Heller
c) J.D. Salinger
d) Kurt Vonnegut
Answer: b

Which author is known for the novel “The Color Purple”?
a) Toni Morrison
b) Zora Neale Hurston
c) Maya Angelou
d) Alice Walker
Answer: d

The Old Man and the Sea” is a novella by which American author?
a) John Steinbeck
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) Jack Kerouac
Answer: b

Who wrote the novel “The Sound of Music”?
a) Jane Austen
b) Louisa May Alcott
c) Margaret Mitchell
d) L. M. Montgomery
Answer: c

The author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is:
a) Herman Melville
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Mark Twain
d) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Answer: c

Who wrote the novel “Slaughterhouse-Five”?
a) Kurt Vonnegut
b) Ray Bradbury
c) George Orwell
d) Aldous Huxley
Answer: a

The novel “The Call of the Wild” is authored by:
a) Jack London
b) J.R.R. Tolkien
c) H.G. Wells
d) Joseph Conrad
Answer: a

“The Road” is a post-apocalyptic novel written by:
a) Cormac McCarthy
b) Stephen King
c) Ray Bradbury
d) Margaret Atwood
Answer: a

“Go Tell It on the Mountain” is a novel by which African-American author?
a) Toni Morrison
b) James Baldwin
c) Langston Hughes
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: b

Who wrote “White Fang”?
a) Jack London
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
d) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer: a

“Walden” is a book by which transcendentalist author?
a) Mark Twain
b) Henry James
c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
d) Henry David Thoreau
Answer: d

The novel “Invisible Man” was written by:
a) Langston Hughes
b) James Baldwin
c) Ralph Ellison
d) Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: c

Who authored the novel “The Joy Luck Club”?
a) Amy Tan
b) Maxine Hong Kingston
c) Lisa See
d) Jhumpa Lahiri
Answer: a

“The Age of Innocence” is written by:
a) Henry James
b) Edith Wharton
c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
d) Emily Dickinson
Answer: b

Which author wrote “In Cold Blood”?
a) John Grisham
b) Truman Capote
c) Harper Lee
d) Raymond Chandler
Answer: b

The novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is written by:
a) Zora Neale Hurston
b) Maya Angelou
c) Toni Morrison
d) Alice Walker
Answer: a

The Bell Jar” is a novel by which American poet and author?
a) Anne Sexton
b) Sylvia Plath
c) Maya Angelou
d) Adrienne Rich
Answer: b

“The House on Mango Street” is a novel by:
a) Sandra Cisneros
b) Isabel Allende
c) Julia Alvarez
d) Laura Esquivel
Answer: a

Who wrote “The Grapes of Wrath”?
a) John Steinbeck
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Harper Lee
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: a

The novel “A Farewell to Arms” is authored by:
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) John Steinbeck
d) J.D. Salinger
Answer: b

“The Color Purple” is a novel by which African-American author?
a) Toni Morrison
b) Alice Walker
c) Zora Neale Hurston
d) Maya Angelou
Answer: b

The author of “Brave New World” is:
a) George Orwell
b) Aldous Huxley
c) Ray Bradbury
d) Philip K. Dick
Answer: b

“The Picture of Dorian Gray” is written by:
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Virginia Woolf
c) Thomas Hardy
d) Henry James
Answer: a

The novel “Native Son” was written by:
a) Ralph Ellison
b) Richard Wright
c) James Baldwin
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: b

Who is the author of “Little Women”?
a) Louisa May Alcott
b) Jane Austen
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Edith Wharton
Answer: a

The novel “The Old Man and the Sea” is written by:
a) John Steinbeck
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) Jack London
Answer: b

“The Jungle” is a novel written by:
a) Upton Sinclair
b) Sinclair Lewis
c) John Steinbeck
d) Jack London
Answer: a

The author of “The Awakening” is:
a) Kate Chopin
b) Edith Wharton
c) Emily Dickinson
d) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Answer: a

Who wrote the novel “On the Road”?
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) Jack Kerouac
c) Allen Ginsberg
d) J.D. Salinger
Answer: b

The novel “A Confederacy of Dunces” is written by:
a) Tom Wolfe
b) John Kennedy Toole
c) Hunter S. Thompson
d) Kurt Vonnegut
Answer: b

Who is the author of “Blood Meridian”?
a) Cormac McCarthy
b) Charles Bukowski
c) Don DeLillo
d) Thomas Pynchon
Answer: a

The novel “The Call of the Wild” is written by:
a) Jack London
b) J.R.R. Tolkien
c) H.G. Wells
d) Joseph Conrad
Answer: a

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