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Questions and Answers
  • 1. 

    The 1977 book titled "Song of Solomon" was written by?

    • A.

      Dashiell Hammett

    • B.

      Robert Penn Warren

    • C.

      D. H. Lawrence

    • D.

      Toni Morrison

    Correct Answer
    D. Toni Morrison
  • 2. 

    The 1906 book titled, "The Jungle" was written by?

    • A.

      Jane Smiley

    • B.

      Elizabeth Bowen

    • C.

      Upton Sinclair

    • D.

      Vladimir Nabokov

    Correct Answer
    C. Upton Sinclair
  • 3. 

    The 1919 book titled "Winesburg, Ohio" was written by whom?

    • A.

      W. Somerset Maugham

    • B.

      Sherwood Anderson

    • C.

      James Jones

    • D.

      Rosamunde Pilcher

    Correct Answer
    B. Sherwood Anderson
  • 4. 

    The 1930 book titled, "The Maltese Falcon", was written by?

    • A.

      Dashiell Hammett

    • B.

      Alan Paton

    • C.

      Nadine Gordimer

    • D.

      Carol Shields

    Correct Answer
    A. Dashiell Hammett
  • 5. 

    The 1948 book titled, "The Naked and the Dead", was written by?

    • A.

      Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    • B.

      Saul Bellow

    • C.

      A. Conan Doyle

    • D.

      Norman Mailer

    Correct Answer
    D. Norman Mailer
  • 6. 

    The 1925 book titled, "An American Tragedy", was written by?

    • A.

      Anne Tyler

    • B.

      William Faulkner

    • C.

      Theodore Dreiser

    • D.

      James Baldwin

    Correct Answer
    C. Theodore Dreiser
  • 7. 

    The 1934 book titled, "Tropic of Cancer", was written by?

    • A.

      Henry Miller

    • B.

      F. Scott Fitzgerald

    • C.

      William Styron

    • D.

      Willa Cather

    Correct Answer
    A. Henry Miller
  • 8. 

    The 1945 book titled, "Brideshead Revisited", was written by?

    • A.

      Sylvia Plath

    • B.

      Virginia Woolf

    • C.

      Evelyn Waugh

    • D.

      Wallace Stegner

    Correct Answer
    C. Evelyn Waugh
  • 9. 

    The 1932 book titled, "Light in August", was written by whom?

    • A.

      William Faulkner

    • B.

      Ken Kesey

    • C.

      Jack London

    • D.

      Jane Smiley

    Correct Answer
    A. William Faulkner
  • 10. 

    The 1957 book titled, "Atlas Shrugged", was written by?

    • A.

      Pat Conroy

    • B.

      Booth Tarkington

    • C.

      Ayn Rand

    • D.

      Daphne Du Maurier

    Correct Answer
    C. Ayn Rand
  • 11. 

    The 1990 book titled, "Possession" was written by?

    • A.

      A. S. Byatt

    • B.

      E. M. Forster

    • C.

      Larry McMurtry

    • D.

      John Steinbeck

    Correct Answer
    A. A. S. Byatt
  • 12. 

    The 1965 book titled, "Dune" was written by?

    • A.

      Nadine Gordimer

    • B.

      Saul Bellow

    • C.

      W. Somerset Maugham

    • D.

      Frank Herbert

    Correct Answer
    D. Frank Herbert
  • 13. 

    The 1901 book titled, "Kim", was written by?

    • A.

      James Dickey

    • B.

      William Faulkner

    • C.

      Rudyard Kipling

    • D.

      Ernest Hemingway

    Correct Answer
    C. Rudyard Kipling
  • 14. 

    The 1975 book titled, "Ragtime" was written by?

    • A.

      Raymond Chandler

    • B.

      Joseph Conrad

    • C.

      E. L. Doctorow

    • D.

      Salman Rushdie

    Correct Answer
    C. E. L. Doctorow
  • 15. 

    The 1957 book titled, "Exodus", was written by whom?

    • A.

      Thomas Wolfe

    • B.

      Arthur C. Clarke

    • C.

      Leon Uris

    • D.

      Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Correct Answer
    C. Leon Uris

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