Trivia: American Literature


1	What's the title of J. D. Salinger's most famous novel?
		The Winter of Our Discontent
		The Lord of the Flies
		Franny and Zooey
		The Catcher in the Rye

2	Who of the following is NOT remembered as a great American poet?
		Walt Whitman
		Emily Dickinson
		Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Willa Cather

3	What was Mark Twain's real name?
		Nathaniel Hawthorne
		Mark Twain
		Samuel Clemens
		Richard Bachman

4	*What is the name of the the family in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath?*
		The Joads
		The Bradys
		The Rochesters
		The Hermanns

5	*Who is the author of As I Lay Dying?*
		Truman Capote
		John Steinbeck
		Mark Twain
		William Faulkner

6	*Who wrote The Color Purple?*
		Toni Morrison
		Alice Walker
		Willa Cather
		Raymond Carver

7	*In which state is F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby* set?**
		New York
		California
		Texas
		Alaska

8	*What famous beat generation writer wrote On the Road?*
		Lawrence Ferlinghetti
		Jack Kerouac
		Allen Ginsberg
		Diane di Palma