Quiz  /  Profiles of Famous Writers Quiz

  • 1. 
    Ernest Hemingway revised his book A Farewell to Arms this many times:

  • 12
  • 25
  • 39
  • 75

  • 2. 
    Which writer once ran for president of Peru?

  • Octavio Paz
  • Paolo Coelho
  • Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Pablo Neruda

  • 3. 
    Which of these novelists is from the American South?

  • Washington Irving
  • Charles Dickens
  • William Faulkner
  • Ernest Hemingway

  • 4. 
    In what country was J.R.R. Tolkien born?

  • Scotland
  • South Africa
  • England
  • the United States

  • 5. 
    A.A. Milne’s initials stand for:

  • Aloysius Arnold
  • Arthur Ainsey
  • Agatha Agamben
  • Alan Alexander

  • 6. 
    Which of these authors did not write science-fiction novels?

  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • Samuel Delaney
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Agatha Christie

  • 7. 
    Which Russian writer lived in exile from 1974 to 1994?

  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Vladimir Nabokov
  • Aleksandr Pushkin
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • 8. 
    Which of these authors is not from Africa?

  • Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Alan Paton
  • Chinua Achebe
  • Naguib Mahfouz

  • 9. 
    Jorge Luis Borges was a famous writer from what country?

  • Argentina
  • Russia
  • Estonia
  • the United States
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