Literature Quiz 29: Authors and Books Quiz

Literature Quiz 29: Authors and Books Quiz

This is a quiz on famous authors and their books. There is a connection between all the authors selected for this quiz. Can you identify the similarity?

Authors and Books Quiz

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1. Who is the author of the satirical novel Catch-22 set in the background of World War II?

Joesph Heller
John Steinbeck
J D Salinger
Harper Lee

2. One of the most influential poets in the American canon, he is often called the father of free verse. He has written the famous poem "O Captain! My Captain!" mourning the death of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Who is he?

Robert Frost
Walt Whitman
T S Eliot
Edgar Allen Poe

3. Who is the creator of the world-famous character, James Bond?

Robert Harris
Ian Fleming
Robert Ludlum
John le Carre

4. The book "The Cat Who Went to Heaven" won the 1931 Newbery Medal for "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children" from American Library Association. Who is the author?

Judy Blume
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Beverly Cleary
Elizabeth Coatsworth

5. Niccolo Machiavelli is often called the father of modern political philosophy and political science. Do you know the title of the well known political treatise written by Machiavelli?

The Prophet
The Prince
Utopia
The Little Prince

6. Who is the author of "Last Orders' which won the 1996 Booker Prize?

Pat Barker
James Kelman
Graham Swift
J M Coetzee

7. Name the German philosopher and socialist revolutionary well known as the writer of "Das Kapital" and "The Communist Manifesto"?

Friedrich Nietzsche
Karl Marx
Immanuel Kant
Adam Smith

8. "The Ring and the Book" is a long narrative poem consisting of 21000 lines and was published in four volumes. Do you know this author who is well known for a famous children's poem?

Robert Browning
Robert Burns
John Milton
Oscar Wilde

9. Which one of the following characters was created by the Scottish novelist J M Barrie?

Whinnie the Pooh
Peter Rabbit
Peter Pan
Perfect Peter

10. "Watership Down", story of a small group of rabbits, was the debut novel of this English novelist. Who is he?

Roald Dahl
Richard Adams
Philip Pullman
C S Lewis

11. Who is the author of the best selling Gothic novel, "Rebecca"?

Gina Wohlsdorf
Fiona Davis
Susan Hill
Daphne du Maurier

12. Name the American author known for the children's novel, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and its sequels

C S Lewis
L Frank Baum
Philip Pullman
Norton Juster



Note: All the authors who are mentioned in the questions or are the correct answers to the questions are born in the month of May

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