Quiz  /  A Study of Writers Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which of these authors is principally known for his or her diaries?

  • Stephen King
  • Anaïs Nin
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Andre Gide

  • 2. 
    Where did J.M. Coetzee grow up?

  • Ukraine
  • South Africa
  • Ethiopia
  • the Netherlands

  • 3. 
    Which of these writers did not publish a major work during the 1930s?

  • D.H. Lawrence
  • Henry Miller
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Virginia Woolf

  • 4. 
    Which of these writers has not been knighted by the royal family of England?

  • Salman Rushdie
  • V.S. Naipaul
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Terry Pratchett

  • 5. 
    What was the novelist Somerset Maugham’s first name?

  • Wayne
  • Walter
  • Wilbur
  • William

  • 6. 
    Which of these was not a member of the Mermaid Club?

  • Samuel Johnson
  • Ben Jonson
  • William Shakespeare
  • Sir Walter Raleigh

  • 7. 
    What country was William Butler Yeats from?

  • Wales
  • Scotland
  • England
  • Ireland

  • 8. 
    With which of these genres is Stephen King generally associated?

  • science fiction
  • horror
  • drama
  • philosophy

  • 9. 
    Which of these authors wrote a novella about a man who turns into an insect?

  • Maupassant
  • Kafka
  • D.H. Lawrence
  • Steinbeck
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