Twentieth-Century American Literature Quiz

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    Who wrote the famous poem The Waste Land?

    • Allen Ginsberg
    • Langston Hughes
    • T. S. Eliot
    • W. H. Auden
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How much do you know about American literature? Have you read twentieth-century American literature? We have a special twentieth-century American literature quiz here for you. America has been known for its amazing literary work, and there have been so many well-known American writers and their poems, novels, plays, and other pieces of literary work. Let's see if you understand American literature of the twentieth century well enough or not. Best of luck!

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  • 2. 

    "As I Lay Dying" was written by

    • Thomas Pynchon

    • William Faulkner

    • John Updike

    • None of these

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  • 3. 

    "To Kill a Mockingbird" was written by

    • J. D. Salinger

    • James Baldwin

    • F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • Harper Lee

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  • 4. 

    "East of Eden" was a novel written by

    • Toni Morrison

    • Sylvia Plath

    • John Steinbeck

    • None of these

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  • 5. 

    Which of these poems is written by Allen Ginsberg?

    • Howl

    • Lady Lazarus

    • This Be The Verse

    • None of these

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  • 6. 

    Who wrote the famous poem Warming Her Pearls?

    • Carol Ann Duffy

    • Toni Morrison

    • Allen Ginsberg

    • T. S. Eliot

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  • 7. 

    "A Bell for Adano" was written by

    • Pat Conroy

    • John Hersey

    • Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    • None of these

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  • 8. 

    Which of these American authors do not belong to the 20th century?

    • Tom Wolfe

    • Philip Roth

    • William S. Burroughs

    • William Hill Brown

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  • 9. 

    "The House of Mirth" was written by

    • Edith Wharton

    • Richard Wright

    • Willa Cather

    • Margaret Mitchell

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  • 10. 

    Toni Morrison is known as the Nobel Prize-winning author of _______.

    • 5 novels

    • 8 novels

    • 10 novels

    • 12 novels

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