Famous Authors Quiz

1. Which author created the character Sherlock Holmes?

1. Agatha Christie
2. Arthur Conan Doyle
3. G.K. Chesterton
4. Wilkie Collins

2. Which author wrote 'The Lord of the Rings'?

1. C.S. Lewis
2. J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Philip Pullman
4. Ursula K. Le Guin

3. Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?

1. Gabriel García Márquez
2. Jorge Luis Borges
3. Mario Vargas Llosa
4. Pablo Neruda

4. Which female author used the pen name 'George Eliot'?

1. George Sand
2. Marian Halcombe
3. Mary Ann Evans
4. Mary Shelley

5. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in which decade?

1. 1930s
2. 1940s
3. 1950s
4. 1960s

6. Who wrote 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

1. Carson McCullers
2. Flannery O'Connor
3. Harper Lee
4. Truman Capote

7. Which Irish author wrote 'Ulysses', considered one of the most important works of modernist literature?

1. James Joyce
2. Oscar Wilde
3. Samuel Beckett
4. William Butler Yeats

8. Which author created the character Hercule Poirot?

1. Agatha Christie
2. Dorothy L. Sayers
3. P.D. James
4. Ruth Rendell

9. Which American author wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?

1. J.D. Salinger
2. John Updike
3. Philip Roth
4. Saul Bellow

10. Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?

1. Edmund Spenser
2. Geoffrey Chaucer
3. John Donne
4. John Milton

11. Which Russian author wrote 'The Brothers Karamazov'?

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Ivan Turgenev
3. Leo Tolstoy
4. Mikhail Bulgakov

12. Which author wrote the dystopian novel 'Brave New World'?

1. Aldous Huxley
2. George Orwell
3. H.G. Wells
4. Ray Bradbury

13. Which poet wrote 'The Waste Land' (1922), a landmark of modernist poetry?

1. Ezra Pound
2. T.S. Eliot
3. W.B. Yeats
4. W.H. Auden

14. Which author, known for magical realism, wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate'?

1. Carlos Fuentes
2. Isabel Allende
3. Laura Esquivel
4. Octavio Paz

15. Which author wrote the 'Harry Potter' series?

1. J.K. Rowling
2. Philip Pullman
3. Roald Dahl
4. Terry Pratchett

16. Which American author wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?

1. Edgar Allan Poe
2. Herman Melville
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne
4. Washington Irving

17. Which South African author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003?

1. Chinua Achebe
2. J.M. Coetzee
3. Nadine Gordimer
4. Wole Soyinka

18. Who wrote 'Don Quixote', generally considered the first modern novel?

1. Francisco de Quevedo
2. Lope de Vega
3. Miguel de Cervantes
4. Tirso de Molina

19. Which author wrote 'Things Fall Apart', a landmark of African literature?

1. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. Chinua Achebe
3. Ngugi wa Thiong'o
4. Wole Soyinka

20. Which poet is known for the collection 'Leaves of Grass', celebrating democracy and the human body?

1. Emily Dickinson
2. Henry David Thoreau
3. Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Walt Whitman