Famous Authors Quiz

• Question 1 out of 13

  Who wrote ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ ?

  J.D. Salinger

  Aldous Huxley

  John Steinbeck

  Mark Twain

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• Question 2 out of 13

  What famous author wrote a children’s book using only 50 unique words?

  J.K. Rowling

  Dr. Seuss

  Harper Lee

  Kurt Vonnegut

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• Question 3 out of 13

  Who wrote ‘The Great Gatsby’ ?

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  James Joyce

  Jack Kerouac

  David Foster Wallace

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• Question 4 out of 13

  What author is credited as the originator of such phrases as “dead as a doornail” and “star-crossed lovers” ?

  William Faulkner

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  William Shakespeare

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• Question 5 out of 13

  Eric Arthur Blair was better known by his pen name:

  T.S. Elliot

  E.A. Blairington

  George Orwell

  Aldous Huxley

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• Question 6 out of 13

  Which of the following novels was NOT written by Stephen King?

  The Shining

  Carrie

  The Green Mile

  Red Dragon

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• Question 7 out of 13

  Which of the following authors did not commit suicide?

  Virginia Woolf

  Hunter S. Thompson

  John Steinbeck

  Ernest Hemingway

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• Question 8 out of 13

  Which of the following books was NOT written by Mark Twain?

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  The Last of the Mohicans

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

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• Question 9 out of 13

  Which of these books WAS written by Ernest Hemingway?

  The Grapes of Wrath

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  The Sun Also Rises

  Of Mice and Men

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• Question 10 out of 13

  Which of the following is NOT a play written by William Shakespeare?

  The Barber of Seville

  The Merchant of Venice

  The Merry Wives of Windsor

  The Taming of the Shrew

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• Question 11 out of 13

  Which of the following authors was a high school dropout?

  George Orwell

  William Faulkner

  John Steinbeck

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• Question 12 out of 13

  Which of the following authors currently graces currency in the United Kingdom?

  Mark Twain

  Virginia Woolf

  J.K. Rowling

  Jane Austen

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• Question 13 out of 13

  Which author is most famed for their works “The Count of Monte Cristo” and “The Three Musketeers” both published in 1844?

  Alexandre Dumas

  Jane Austen

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  Edgar Allen Poe

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