What Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway features the character Santiago?
Answer
The Old Man and the Sea
80 American Literature Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Who wrote 'Little Women'?
Answer
Louisa May Alcott
Which American author is known for 'Walden'?
Answer
Henry David Thoreau
What is the name of the river in Mark Twain's 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'?
Answer
Mississippi River
Which American poet won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for 'The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver'?
Answer
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Which American author wrote the novel 'Gravity's Rainbow'?
Answer
Thomas Pynchon
What is the name of the protagonist in 'The Great Gatsby'?
Answer
Nick Carraway
Which American poet wrote 'Because I could not stop for Death'?
Answer
Emily Dickinson
Which American author wrote 'The Call of the Wild'?
Answer
Jack London
Which American author wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
Answer
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Which American novelist wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'?
Answer
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Which American poet wrote 'The Waste Land'?
Answer
T.S. Eliot
Which American author wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
Answer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who is the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer
Toni Morrison
Which American author wrote the short story 'The Lottery'?
Answer
Shirley Jackson
What is the full name of the author who wrote under the pen name 'Mark Twain'?
Answer
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Which American poet wrote 'Leaves of Grass'?
Answer
Walt Whitman
How many novels did Harper Lee publish?
Answer
Two
Which American novelist wrote 'The Color Purple'?
Answer
Alice Walker
What is the name of the fictional county in William Faulkner's novels?
Answer
Yoknapatawpha
Who wrote the poem 'The Raven'?
Answer
Edgar Allan Poe
Which American author wrote the novel 'The Sun Also Rises'?
Answer
Ernest Hemingway
Which American author wrote 'Of Mice and Men'?
Answer
John Steinbeck
What is the name of the whale in 'Moby-Dick'?
Answer
Moby Dick
Which novel by John Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940?
Answer
The Grapes of Wrath
Who is the author of 'Moby-Dick'?
Answer
Herman Melville
Which American poet wrote 'The Road Not Taken'?
Answer
Robert Frost