Great American Authors

• Question 1 out of 10

  Which American author wrote The Great Gatsby?

  Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel is a Jazz Age classic exploring wealth, love, and the American Dream, set on Long Island during the Roaring Twenties.

  Ernest Hemingway

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  William Faulkner

  John Steinbeck

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• Question 2 out of 10

  In The Grapes of Wrath, why do the Joad family and thousands of others migrate to California?

  Steinbeck’s novel portrays the 1930s migration caused by drought and economic collapse in the Great Plains, symbolizing resilience and hardship.

  To escape rising crime

  To flee the Dust Bowl and seek work

  To join the Gold Rush

  To avoid military draft

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• Question 3 out of 10

  Who is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird?

  Harper Lee’s 1960 novel, set in Depression-era Alabama, tackles themes of racial injustice and moral growth through the eyes of young Scout Finch.

  Eudora Welty

  Carson McCullers

  Harper Lee

  Flannery O’Connor

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• Question 4 out of 10

  In To Kill a Mockingbird, what does the mockingbird symbolize?

  The mockingbird represents innocence and goodness — characters like Tom Robinson and Boo Radley are “mockingbirds” harmed by injustice.

  Hope

  Innocence destroyed by evil

  Freedom

  Social status

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• Question 5 out of 10

  Which American poet broke conventions by using unusual capitalization, punctuation, and short lines?

  Dickinson’s unique style and reclusive life made her a posthumous literary icon whose work challenged poetic norms.

  Robert Frost

  Walt Whitman

  Emily Dickinson

  Sylvia Plath

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• Question 6 out of 10

  What major historical event forms the backdrop of The Great Gatsby?

  Fitzgerald’s novel captures the extravagance, jazz culture, and moral recklessness of 1920s America under alcohol prohibition.

  The Great Depression

  The Roaring Twenties and Prohibition

  World War I

  The Civil Rights Movement

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• Question 7 out of 10

  Which American poet is famous for the line “Because I could not stop for Death”?

  Dickinson’s haunting poem personifies death as a polite suitor, reflecting her unique style and preoccupation with mortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Walt Whitman

  Robert Frost

  Anne Bradstreet

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• Question 8 out of 10

  Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea?

  Hemingway’s 1952 novella, about a Cuban fisherman’s epic battle with a marlin, won the Pulitzer Prize and contributed to his Nobel Prize win.

  John Steinbeck

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sinclair Lewis

  Zora Neale Hurston

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• Question 9 out of 10

  In The Scarlet Letter, what letter does Hester Prynne have to wear, and why?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel uses the scarlet “A” to explore sin, guilt, and societal judgment in Puritan New England.

  “B” for betrayal

  “A” for adultery

  “S” for sin

  “P” for prisoner

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• Question 10 out of 10

  Which American poet’s 1855 self-published work was called Leaves of Grass?

  Whitman’s groundbreaking free verse celebrated democracy, nature, and the human body, and he revised it throughout his life.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Walt Whitman

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Edgar Allan Poe

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