Authors & Poets

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1.Which author wrote In Search of Lost Time?
- A. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- B. Margaret Atwood
- C. Marcel Proust
- D. Chinua Achebe
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Marcel Proust
Did you know? Marcel Proust wrote much of In Search of Lost Time in his cork-lined bedroom.
2.Which children's author wrote Little Women?
- A. Frances Hodgson Burnett
- B. Louisa May Alcott
- C. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- D. A. A. Milne
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Louisa May Alcott
Did you know? Louisa May Alcott based the March sisters on her own family.
3.Which playwright wrote Death of a Salesman and The Crucible?
- A. Henrik Ibsen
- B. Arthur Miller
- C. William Shakespeare
- D. Aristophanes
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Arthur Miller
Did you know? Arthur Miller's The Crucible mirrors the McCarthy-era hearings.
4.Which poet wrote nearly 1,800 poems published mostly after her death?
- A. Emily Dickinson
- B. Cecília Meireles
- C. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- D. Robert Frost
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Emily Dickinson
Did you know? Emily Dickinson lived in near-seclusion in Amherst, Massachusetts.
5.Which writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971?
- A. Anatole France
- B. Pablo Neruda
- C. Luigi Pirandello
- D. Yasunari Kawabata
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Pablo Neruda
Did you know? Neruda's love poetry made him Chile's best-known poet.
6.Which author wrote Midnight's Children?
- A. Ernest Hemingway
- B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- C. George Orwell
- D. Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Did you know? Salman Rushdie won the "Booker of Bookers" for Midnight's Children.
7.Which children's author wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda?
- A. Lewis Carroll
- B. Louisa May Alcott
- C. Roald Dahl
- D. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Roald Dahl
Did you know? Roald Dahl was a Royal Air Force pilot before becoming an author.
8.Which playwright wrote Tartuffe and The Misanthrope?
- A. Federico García Lorca
- B. Bertolt Brecht
- C. Aristophanes
- D. Molière
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Molière
Did you know? Molière collapsed on stage while performing his own last play.
9.Which poet wrote "The Road Not Taken"?
- A. Walt Whitman
- B. Alexander Pushkin
- C. Robert Frost
- D. Carlos Drummond de Andrade
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Robert Frost
Did you know? Robert Frost won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times.
10.Which writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953?
- A. Seamus Heaney
- B. Eugene O'Neill
- C. Winston Churchill
- D. Miguel Ángel Asturias
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Winston Churchill
Did you know? Churchill won for his memoirs and oratory, not as a novelist.
11.Which author wrote Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain?
- A. Victor Hugo
- B. Aldous Huxley
- C. Boris Pasternak
- D. Thomas Mann
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Thomas Mann
Did you know? Thomas Mann won the Nobel Prize in 1929.
12.Which children's author wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
- A. Lewis Carroll
- B. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- C. A. A. Milne
- D. Astrid Lindgren
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Lewis Carroll
Did you know? Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson.
13.Which playwright wrote O Auto da Compadecida?
- A. Ariano Suassuna
- B. Henrik Ibsen
- C. Federico García Lorca
- D. Tennessee Williams
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Ariano Suassuna
Did you know? Ariano Suassuna championed northeastern Brazilian popular culture in his work.
14.Which poet co-founded English Romanticism with the Lyrical Ballads?
- A. Walt Whitman
- B. Robert Frost
- C. William Wordsworth
- D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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William Wordsworth
Did you know? William Wordsworth served as Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843.
15.Which writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945?
- A. Pablo Neruda
- B. Luigi Pirandello
- C. Winston Churchill
- D. Gabriela Mistral
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Gabriela Mistral
Did you know? Mistral was the first Latin American Nobel laureate in Literature.
16.Which author wrote Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four?
- A. Chinua Achebe
- B. George Orwell
- C. Kazuo Ishiguro
- D. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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George Orwell
Did you know? George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair.
17.Which children's author wrote and illustrated The Little Prince?
- A. Louisa May Alcott
- B. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- C. Lewis Carroll
- D. J. M. Barrie
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Did you know? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was an aviator who drew on flying experience for his books.
18.Which playwright wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet?
- A. William Shakespeare
- B. Tennessee Williams
- C. Ariano Suassuna
- D. Euripides
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William Shakespeare
Did you know? William Shakespeare co-owned the Globe Theatre in London.
19.Which poet wrote the lyrics of "The Girl from Ipanema"?
- A. Emily Dickinson
- B. Walt Whitman
- C. Vinicius de Moraes
- D. Charles Baudelaire
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Vinicius de Moraes
Did you know? Vinicius de Moraes was both a poet and a bossa nova songwriter.
20.Which writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986?
- A. Eugene O'Neill
- B. Salvatore Quasimodo
- C. Halldór Laxness
- D. Wole Soyinka
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Wole Soyinka
Did you know? Soyinka was the first African literature laureate.
21.Which author wrote Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse?
- A. Thomas Mann
- B. Nikolai Gogol
- C. Aldous Huxley
- D. Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Did you know? Virginia Woolf helped pioneer stream of consciousness in English fiction.
22.Which children's author created Pippi Longstocking?
- A. Frances Hodgson Burnett
- B. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- C. Louisa May Alcott
- D. Astrid Lindgren
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Astrid Lindgren
Did you know? Astrid Lindgren's books have been translated into dozens of languages worldwide.
23.Which poet was known as "the poet of the slaves"?
- A. Lord Byron
- B. Alexander Pushkin
- C. Castro Alves
- D. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Castro Alves
Did you know? Castro Alves wrote abolitionist verse such as "O Navio Negreiro".
24.Which writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930?
- A. Heinrich Böll
- B. Pablo Neruda
- C. Sinclair Lewis
- D. Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Sinclair Lewis
Did you know? Lewis was the first American Nobel laureate in Literature.
25.Which author wrote Ulysses and Dubliners?
- A. Oscar Wilde
- B. Joseph Conrad
- C. Charles Dickens
- D. James Joyce
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James Joyce
Did you know? James Joyce chose 16 June 1904, now Bloomsday, as the day of Ulysses.
26.Which writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968?
- A. Luigi Pirandello
- B. Samuel Beckett
- C. Knut Hamsun
- D. Yasunari Kawabata
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Yasunari Kawabata
Did you know? Kawabata was the first Japanese literature laureate.
27.Which author wrote The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms?
- A. Ernest Hemingway
- B. Marcel Proust
- C. Oscar Wilde
- D. Ivan Turgenev
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Ernest Hemingway
Did you know? Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in 1954.
28.Which author wrote The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden?
- A. Selma Lagerlöf
- B. Joseph Conrad
- C. John Steinbeck
- D. Giovanni Boccaccio
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John Steinbeck
Did you know? John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962.
29.Which author wrote Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther?
- A. Salman Rushdie
- B. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- C. Alexandre Dumas
- D. Virginia Woolf
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Did you know? Goethe's Werther sparked a fashion for blue coats across Europe.
30.Which author wrote The Remains of the Day?
- A. William Faulkner
- B. Kazuo Ishiguro
- C. Robert Louis Stevenson
- D. Marcel Proust
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Did you know? Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in 2017.
31.Which author wrote Catch-22?
- A. Émile Zola
- B. Fyodor Dostoevsky
- C. Alice Walker
- D. Joseph Heller
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Joseph Heller
Did you know? Joseph Heller's title Catch-22 became an English idiom.
32.Which author wrote The Handmaid's Tale?
- A. Margaret Atwood
- B. Leo Tolstoy
- C. Jane Austen
- D. Ray Bradbury
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Margaret Atwood
Did you know? Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author from Toronto.
33.Which author wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest?
- A. Joseph Conrad
- B. Jane Austen
- C. George Bernard Shaw
- D. Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Did you know? Oscar Wilde toured the United States lecturing on aesthetics in 1882.
34.Which author wrote Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?
- A. Boris Pasternak
- B. Jack Kerouac
- C. Victor Hugo
- D. Rabindranath Tagore
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Victor Hugo
Did you know? Victor Hugo was a leading figure of French Romanticism.
35.Which author wrote The Great Gatsby?
- A. Emily Brontë
- B. Rabindranath Tagore
- C. D. H. Lawrence
- D. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Did you know? F. Scott Fitzgerald named the Jazz Age in his writing.
36.Which author wrote Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles?
- A. Gustave Flaubert
- B. Ray Bradbury
- C. Anton Chekhov
- D. E. M. Forster
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Ray Bradbury
Did you know? Ray Bradbury never obtained a driver's license and preferred public transit.
37.Which author wrote Pride and Prejudice and Emma?
- A. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- B. Anton Chekhov
- C. Jane Austen
- D. George Bernard Shaw
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Jane Austen
Did you know? Jane Austen set her novels in the English gentry of the early 1800s.
38.Which author wrote Pygmalion?
- A. Anton Chekhov
- B. Oscar Wilde
- C. Ivan Turgenev
- D. George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw
Did you know? George Bernard Shaw won both an Oscar and the Nobel Prize.
39.Which author wrote The Stranger and The Plague?
- A. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- B. Leo Tolstoy
- C. Isabel Allende
- D. Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Did you know? Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize in 1957.
40.Which author wrote Wuthering Heights, her only novel?
- A. Aldous Huxley
- B. Arundhati Roy
- C. Emily Brontë
- D. Arthur Rimbaud
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Emily Brontë
Did you know? Emily Brontë's only novel is Wuthering Heights (1847).

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