American Literature

Question 1

Who wrote the graphic novel Maus about the Holocaust?

Answer 1

Art Spiegelman

Question 2

Who wrote a graphic novel depicting stories from the Holocaust?

Answer 2

Art Spiegelman

Question 3

Who wrote “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”?

Answer 3

Walt Whitman

Question 4

What was the title of the pastoral elegy about Abraham Lincoln’s death written by Walt Whitman?

Answer 4

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

Question 5

A play about race in August Wilson’s sixth entry into his collection of drama’s called the “Pittsburgh Cycles” was titled what?

Answer 5

Fences

Question 6

Who authored the sixth entry into the “Pittsburgh Cycles”, titled “Fences”?

Answer 6

August Wilson

Question 7

What novel by William Faulkner explores the decline of the Compson family of Yoknapatawpha County?

Answer 7

The Sound and the Fury

Question 8

Who wrote The Sound and the Fury, a collection of narratives from the Compson Family?

Answer 8

William Faulkner

Question 9

What essay written by poet and critic T.S. Eliot examines the role of tradition in modern writing?

Answer 9

Tradition and the Individual Talent

Question 10

Who wrote Tradition and the Individual Talent, a essay about the role of tradition in contemporary writing?

Answer 10

T.S. Eliot

Question 11

What book is about a mouse with big ears, written by Kate DiCamillo?

Answer 11

The Tale of Despereaux

Question 12

What book details the sailor Ishmael’s narrative of the quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against a white whale?

Answer 12

Moby Dick: The Whale

Question 13

Who wrote Moby Dick: The Whale, detailing Captain Ahab’s quest of vengeance against a white whale?

Answer 13

Herman Melville

Question 14

Who wrote a poem about a man taking the Brooklyn ferry home from Manhattan at the end of a working day?

Answer 14

Walt Whitman

Question 15

What was the title of the poem about a man taking the Brooklyn ferry home from Manhattan at the end of a working day?

Answer 15

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Question 16

What poem explores the introspective view of possibilities for communion between individuals?

Answer 16

Song of Myself

Question 17

Who wrote the poem that explores the introspective view of possibilities for communion between individuals?

Answer 17

Walt Whitman

Question 18

What collection of poems represents the celebration of the philosophy of life and humanity and praises nature and the individual human’s role in it?

Answer 18

Leaves of Grass

Question 19

Who wrote the collection of poems representing the celebration of the philosophy of life and humanity and praises nature and the individual human’s role in it?

Answer 19

Walt Whitman

Question 20

What play takes place in the living room of a middle-aged couple, George and Martha, who have come home from a faculty party drunk and quarrelsome?

Answer 20

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Question 21

Who wrote the play that takes place in the living room of a middle-aged couple, George and Martha, who have come home from a faculty party drunk and quarrelsome?

Answer 21

Edward Albee

Question 22

Who wrote a lyrical personification of Death, who visits the poem’s speaker and takes her on a carriage ride to the afterlife?

Answer 22

Emily Dickinson

Question 23

What poem was a lyrical personification of Death, who visits the poem’s speaker and takes her on a carriage ride to the afterlife?

Answer 23

Because I could not stop for Death

Question 24

What novel tells the story of Jack, Wendy, and Danny Torrance during an isolated winter in which Jack becomes the caretaker of Colorado’s Overlook Hotel?

Answer 24

The Shining

Question 25

Who writes the story of Jack, Wendy, and Danny Torrance during an isolated winter in which Jack becomes the caretaker of Colorado’s Overlook Hotel?

Answer 25

Stephen King

Question 26

Who wrote the collection of stories that takes place over four seasons, moving from a man seeking revenge after wrongful imprisonment to a woman fighting against death?

Answer 26

Stephen King

Question 27

What was the collection of stories that takes place over four seasons, moving from a man seeking revenge after wrongful imprisonment to a woman fighting against death?

Answer 27

Different Seasons