Who wrote the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Herman Melville
Answer: c
“The Lottery” is a famous short story written by:
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) Shirley Jackson
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) John Steinbeck
Answer: b
Which author wrote the short story “The Gift of the Magi?
a) O. Henry
b) William Faulkner
c) Flannery O’Connor
d) Raymond Carver
Answer: a
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written by:
a) Kate Chopin
b) Virginia Woolf
c) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
d) Louisa May Alcott
Answer: c
Who authored the short story “The Most Dangerous Game”?
a) Jack London
b) J.D. Salinger
c) Richard Connell
d) Ray Bradbury
Answer: c
“The Cask of Amontillado” is a short story written by:
a) Washington Irving
b) Ralph Waldo Emerson
c) Henry James
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: d
Which short story features a character named Gregor Samsa who wakes up transformed into an insect?
a) “The Metamorphosis”
b) “The Fall of the House of Usher”
c) “The Scarlett Letter”
d) “To Build a Fire”
Answer: a
Who wrote the short story “A Rose for Emily”?
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Flannery O’Connor
c) William Faulkner
d) Eudora Welty
Answer: c
The Gift” is a short story by which acclaimed American author?
a) Toni Morrison
b) Alice Walker
c) Maya Angelou
d) Jhumpa Lahiri
Answer: b
“Hills Like White Elephants” is a short story written by:
a) Jack London
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) John Steinbeck
d) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Answer: b
Who authored the short story “The Necklace”?
a) Guy de Maupassant
b) Leo Tolstoy
c) Franz Kafka
d) Gabriel García Márquez
Answer: a
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a short story by:
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Walt Whitman
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Mark Twain
Answer: d
Which short story features a character named Bartleby who responds with “I would prefer not to”?
a) “Young Goodman Brown”
b) “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
c) “The Raven”
d) “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Answer: b
“The Lady, or the Tiger?” is a short story by:
a) Washington Irving
b) O. Henry
c) Frank R. Stockton
d) Herman Melville
Answer: c
Who wrote the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) H.P. Lovecraft
c) Stephen King
d) Ambrose Bierce
Answer: a
“The Swimmer” is a short story written by:
a) John Updike
b) Saul Bellow
c) Kurt Vonnegut
d) Raymond Carver
Answer: a
Which short story is known for its surprise ending with the line “And then there were none”?
a) “The Most Dangerous Game”
b) “The Lottery”
c) “The Pit and the Pendulum”
d) “And Then There Were None”
Answer: d
Who wrote the short story “The Ransom of Red Chief”?
a) H.G. Wells
b) W. Somerset Maugham
c) O. Henry
d) Henry James
Answer: c
Barn Burning” is a short story by which American author?
a) William Faulkner
b) John Steinbeck
c) Toni Morrison
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a
Who authored the short story “The Open Boat”?
a) Jack London
b) Stephen Crane
c) Mark Twain
d) Ambrose Bierce
Answer: b
“The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is a short story by:
a) Flannery O’Connor
b) Eudora Welty
c) Zora Neale Hurston
d) Katherine Anne Porter
Answer: d
Who wrote the short story “To Build a Fire”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Jack London
c) John Steinbeck
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: b
“The Things They Carried” is a short story by:
a) Tim O’Brien
b) Kurt Vonnegut
c) Toni Morrison
d) J.D. Salinger
Answer: a
Which American author wrote the short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge?
a) Herman Melville
b) Ambrose Bierce
c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
d) Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: b
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is a short story written by:
a) Flannery O’Connor
b) Eudora Welty
c) Kate Chopin
d) Alice Walker
Answer: a
Who authored the short story “The Devil and Tom Walker”?
a) Washington Irving
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Herman Melville
Answer: a
“Young Goodman Brown” is a short story by which author?
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Herman Melville
d) Washington Irving
Answer: a
Who wrote the short story “A Sound of Thunder”?
a) Ray Bradbury
b) Isaac Asimov
c) Philip K. Dick
d) Arthur C. Clarke
Answer: a
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro” is a short story written by:
a) John Steinbeck
b) Ernest Hemingway
c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
d) Mark Twain
Answer: b
Which short story features a character named Hulga who has a wooden leg?
a) “Good Country People”
b) “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
c) “The Yellow Wallpaper”
d) “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”
Answer: a
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a short story by:
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Mark Twain
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer: b
Who wrote the short story “The Use of Force”?
a) John Steinbeck
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) James Baldwin
d) William Carlos Williams
Answer: d
“Cathedral” is a short story by:
a) Raymond Carver
b) John Updike
c) Kurt Vonnegut
d) J.D. Salinger
Answer: a
Who authored the short story “The Glass Menagerie”?
a) Tennessee Williams
b) Arthur Miller
c) Eugene O’Neill
d) Langston Hughes
Answer: a
“Bartleby, the Scrivener” is a short story by which author?
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Herman Melville
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Mark Twain
Answer: b
Who wrote the short story “The Monkey’s Paw”?
a) H.P. Lovecraft
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) W. Somerset Maugham
d) W.W. Jacobs
Answer: d
“The Open Window” is a short story by:
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Oscar Wilde
c) Mark Twain
d) Saki (H.H. Munro)
Answer: d
Who wrote the short story “The Snow Image”?
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Edgar Allan Poe
c) Washington Irving
d) Herman Melville
Answer: a
“The Revolt of ‘Mother'” is a short story by:
a) Mark Twain
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Louisa May Alcott
d) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Answer: d
Who authored the short story “Paul’s Case”?
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) Willa Cather
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) Eudora Welty
Answer: b
“The Killers” is a short story written by:
a) John Steinbeck
b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) Mark Twain
Answer: c
Who wrote the short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner”?
a) D.H. Lawrence
b) Virginia Woolf
c) Thomas Hardy
d) George Orwell
Answer: a
“The Beast in the Jungle” is a short story by:
a) Henry James
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Herman Melville
Answer: a
Who authored the short story “The Outcasts of Poker Flat”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Bret Harte
c) Jack London
d) Ambrose Bierce
Answer: b
“A&P” is a short story written by:
a) John Updike
b) Philip Roth
c) J.D. Salinger
d) Saul Bellow
Answer: a
Who wrote the short story “The Swimmer”?
a) John Cheever
b) Raymond Carver
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) Kurt Vonnegut
Answer: a
The Law of Life” is a short story by which American author?
a) Jack London
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Herman Melville
Answer: a
Who authored the short story “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”?
a) Mark Twain
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Henry James
d) Stephen Crane
Answer: d
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a short story by:
a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
b) Washington Irving
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Herman Melville
Answer: b
Who wrote the short story “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”?
a) Edith Wharton
b) Kate Chopin
c) Zora Neale Hurston
d) Alice Walker
Answer: a
