Famous Authors Recall

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Instructions: Match authors to their famous books

1.
Who wrote the classic novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
A
Emily Brontë
B
Charlotte Brontë
C
Jane Austen
D
George Eliot
2.
Which author wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
A
John Steinbeck
B
F. Scott Fitzgerald
C
Ernest Hemingway
D
William Faulkner
3.
Who wrote '1984', the famous dystopian novel?
A
Ray Bradbury
B
H.G. Wells
C
Aldous Huxley
D
George Orwell
4.
Which author is known for writing 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
A
Victor Hugo
B
Thomas Hardy
C
Mark Twain
D
Charles Dickens
5.
Who wrote the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
A
Harper Lee
B
Flannery O'Connor
C
Carson McCullers
D
Truman Capote
6.
Which author wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
A
Sinclair Lewis
B
John Steinbeck
C
Ernest Hemingway
D
F. Scott Fitzgerald
7.
Who wrote the epic novel 'War and Peace'?
A
Fyodor Dostoevsky
B
Leo Tolstoy
C
Ivan Turgenev
D
Anton Chekhov
8.
Which author created the character Sherlock Holmes?
A
Wilkie Collins
B
Edgar Allan Poe
C
Arthur Conan Doyle
D
Agatha Christie
9.
Who wrote 'The Grapes of Wrath'?
A
Theodore Dreiser
B
Upton Sinclair
C
William Faulkner
D
John Steinbeck
10.
Which author wrote 'Moby-Dick'?
A
Herman Melville
B
Nathaniel Hawthorne
C
Jack London
D
James Fenimore Cooper
11.
Who wrote the play 'Death of a Salesman'?
A
Arthur Miller
B
Eugene O'Neill
C
Edward Albee
D
Tennessee Williams
12.
Which author wrote 'Gone with the Wind'?
A
Edith Wharton
B
Pearl S. Buck
C
Willa Cather
D
Margaret Mitchell
13.
Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'?
A
John Milton
B
William Shakespeare
C
Geoffrey Chaucer
D
Edmund Spenser
14.
Which author wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
A
Isabel Allende
B
Gabriel García Márquez
C
Jorge Luis Borges
D
Pablo Neruda
15.
Who wrote the novel 'Catch-22'?
A
Kurt Vonnegut
B
Philip Roth
C
Norman Mailer
D
Joseph Heller

Answer Key

Question 1

C. Jane Austen

Question 2

C. Ernest Hemingway

Question 3

D. George Orwell

Question 4

D. Charles Dickens

Question 5

A. Harper Lee

Question 6

D. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 7

B. Leo Tolstoy

Question 8

C. Arthur Conan Doyle

Question 9

D. John Steinbeck

Question 10

A. Herman Melville

Question 11

A. Arthur Miller

Question 12

D. Margaret Mitchell

Question 13

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 14

B. Gabriel García Márquez

Question 15

D. Joseph Heller

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