• 1. 
    Who among these writers was initially known as an interpreter of New Orleans culture but was rediscovered in the late 20th century because of her concerns about the freedom of women?

  • Kate Chopin
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Alice Walker
  • Willa Cather
  • 2. 
    Who wrote The Bluest Eye and Beloved?

  • Toni Morrison
  • Amy Tan
  • James Baldwin
  • T.S. Eliot
  • 3. 
    Whose novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was adapted for film as Blade Runner (1982)?

  • Philip K. Dick’s
  • Margaret Atwood’s
  • George Orwell’s
  • Aldous Huxley’s
  • 4. 
    Which of these writers reconstructed in Wide Sargasso Sea the earlier life of the fictional character Antoinette Cosway, who was Mr. Rochester’s mad first wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre?

  • Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Janet Flanner
  • Margaret Drabble
  • Jean Rhys
  • 5. 
    Which American novelist was famous for his depiction of the Jazz Age?

  • Flannery O’Connor
  • William Faulkner
  • Alex Haley
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 6. 
    Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country, a novel that helped focus global attention on the injustices of apartheid in South Africa?

  • Alan Paton
  • Nadine Gordimer
  • Breyten Breytenbach
  • Chinua Achebe
  • 7. 
    Which novelist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986?

  • Alva Reimer Myrdal
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Alfonso García Robles
  • Elie Wiesel
  • 8. 
    Who wrote Song of Solomon?

  • Richard Rive
  • Abe Kōbō
  • Toni Morrison
  • Ōe Kenzaburō
  • 9. 
    Who wrote The Prince and the Pauper?

  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Mark Twain
  • B. Traven
  • Bret Harte
  • 10. 
    Who wrote Hans Brinker?

  • Johanna Spyri
  • Mary Mapes Dodge
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • 11. 
    Who wrote Our Mutual Friend?

  • Daniel Defoe
  • Charles Dickens
  • Anthony Trollope
  • William Makepeace Thackeray
  • 12. 
    Who of these writers, along with Samuel Richardson, is considered to be a founder of the English novel?

  • Henry Fielding
  • Thomas Hardy
  • George Eliot
  • Jane Austen
  • 13. 
    Who wrote Brighton Rock, which was later made into a film?

  • Katherine Mansfield
  • Graham Greene
  • William Golding
  • Neil Simon
  • 14. 
    Who first achieved fame with Goodbye Columbus and was later awarded the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral?

  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • August Wilson
  • Philip Roth
  • Joseph Heller
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