Quiz  /  American Women Writers Quiz

  • 1. 
    Who wrote Song of Solomon?

  • Richard Rive
  • Abe Kōbō
  • Toni Morrison
  • Ōe Kenzaburō

  • 2. 
    Whose novel Death Comes for the Archbishop recounts the story of French Catholic missionaries in the southwestern United States?

  • Lucy Maud Montgomery’s
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder’s
  • Louisa May Alcott’s
  • Willa Cather’s

  • 3. 
    Whose novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932?

  • Eudora Welty’s
  • Margaret Mitchell’s
  • Edith Wharton’s
  • Pearl Buck’s

  • 4. 
    Which of these writers perished at age 40 in a shipwreck off Fire Island?

  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Margaret Fuller
  • Anne Bradstreet
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • 5. 
    Which of these U.S. first ladies is known for her thousands of letters reflecting her life and times?

  • Mamie Eisenhower
  • Abigail Adams
  • Nancy Reagan
  • Martha Washington

  • 6. 
    What American author presented her philosophy of objectivism in works such as The Fountainhead?

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Ayn Rand
  • Alice Walker

  • 7. 
    Which of these authors wrote the classic Hans Brinker?

  • Johanna Spyri
  • Mary Mapes Dodge
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Louisa May Alcott

  • 8. 
    Whose series of books about her Midwestern childhood, notably Little House on the Prairie, was adapted for a successful television series?

  • Louisa May Alcott’s
  • Harriet Monroe’s
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder’s

  • 9. 
    What American short-story writer from Jackson, Mississippi, produced the memoir One Writer’s Beginnings from a series of lectures she gave at Harvard?

  • Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Flannery O’Connor
  • Carson McCullers
  • Eudora Welty

  • 10. 
    What American poet wrote the novel The Bell Jar?

  • Anne Sexton
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Denise Levertov
  • Sylvia Plath
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