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1
Which author was a former World War I ambulance driver and wrote
A Farewell to Arms
?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
2
Which famous author of
1984
and
Animal Farm
was born with the name Eric Blair?
Ray Bradbury
Aldous Huxley
H.G. Wells
George Orwell
3
Who wrote
Dreams from My Father
, a memoir about race and identity?
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King Jr.
Colin Powell
Barack Obama
4
Who wrote their autobiography titled
Long Walk to Freedom
?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mahatma Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Malcolm X
5
Charles Dickens worked in what type of factory as a child, an experience that deeply influenced his novels?
A coal mine
A textile factory
A printing press
A shoe polish factory
6
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
is the original novel by which author?
T.S.Eliot
J.K.Rowling
C.S.Lewis
Lewis Carroll
7
Which French author wrote
Les Misérables
and
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
?
Victor Hugo
Gustave Flaubert
Alexandre Dumas
Albert Camus
8
What was the name of the Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis and later published
The Diary of a Young Girl?
Virginia Woolf
Ada Lovelace
Helen Keller
Anne Frank
9
What American writer penned
The Great Gatsby
?
O. Henry
Harper Lee
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
10
Which British author is known for writing
Pride and Prejudice
?
Jane Austen
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Mary Shelley
11
What famous playwright is often called “The Bard of Avon”?
Ben Jonson
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
12
What famous Russian novelist wrote
War and Peace
?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anton Chekhov
Leo Tolstoy
Vladimir Nabokov
13
Which writer famously used the pen name Mark Twain?
Walt Whitman
Samuel Clemens
C.S. Lewis
Nathaniel Hawthorne
14
Which Gothic novelist wrote
Frankenstein
, one of the first science fiction novels?
Louisa May Alcott
Virginia Woolf
Mary Shelley
Emily Brontë