Which American author is known for his darkly comedic novels, including Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle?

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Which American author is known for his darkly comedic novels, including Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle?

A. Kurt Vonnegut

B. Joseph Heller

C. Philip Roth

D. J.D. Salinger

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What is the title of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in the American South during the 1930s?

A. The Catcher in the Rye

B. To Kill a Mockingbird

C. Brave New World

D. Lord of the Flies

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In George Orwell's novella Animal Farm, which animal represents the bourgeoisie and ruling class?

A. Pigs

B. Horses

C. Dogs

D. Sheep

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Who wrote the epic poem Paradise Lost?

A. John Bunyan

B. John Donne

C. John Milton

D. Jonathan Swift

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Who wrote the play The Importance of Being Earnest, known for its wit and satire of Victorian society?

A. Oscar Wilde

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Samuel Beckett

D. Anton Chekhov

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Which American author wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

A. Mark Twain

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Herman Melville

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Who is the author of the novel Moby-Dick, which tells the story of Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for a white whale?

A. Herman Melville

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Mark Twain

D. Washington Irving

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Who wrote the play The Glass Menagerie, which draws on elements of memory and illusion?

A. Tennessee Williams

B. Arthur Miller

C. Eugene O'Neill

D. Samuel Beckett

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Who wrote the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, known for its modernist style and introspective themes?

A. T.S. Eliot

B. W.B. Yeats

C. Ezra Pound

D. Wallace Stevens

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Who wrote the novel The Sound and the Fury, known for its innovative narrative techniques and exploration of Southern American life?

A. William Faulkner

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. John Steinbeck

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In Shakespeare's play Othello, who is Iago's wife, known for her innocence and honesty?

A. Desdemona

B. Emilia

C. Bianca

D. Cassio

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Who wrote the poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, known for its metaphysical conceits about separation and love?

A. John Milton

B. John Donne

C. Andrew Marvell

D. George Herbert

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Who wrote the novel The Catcher in the Rye, which follows the experiences of the disenchanted teenager Holden Caulfield in New York City?

A. J.D. Salinger

B. Kurt Vonnegut

C. Jack Kerouac

D. John Updike

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Which American playwright wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Zoo Story?

A. Edward Albee

B. Arthur Miller

C. Lorraine Hansberry

D. Tennessee Williams

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What is the title of the novel by Mark Twain that follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn?

A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

C. The Call of the Wild

D. Treasure Island

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Which American author is known for his darkly comedic novels, including Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle?

A. Kurt Vonnegut

B. Joseph Heller

C. Philip Roth

D. J.D. Salinger

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What is the title of the novel by J.D. Salinger that follows the experiences of Holden Caulfield in New York City?

A. The Catcher in the Rye

B. Catch-22

C. On the Road

D. The Great Gatsby

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Who wrote the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which follows the life and development of Stephen Dedalus?

A. James Joyce

B. D.H. Lawrence

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. E.M. Forster

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Who is the author of Beloved, a novel about the horrors of slavery and its aftermath in America?

A. Toni Morrison

B. Maya Angelou

C. Alice Walker

D. Zora Neale Hurston

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In which Shakespeare play does the character Lady Macbeth famously say, Out, damned spot!?

A. Macbeth

B. Othello

C. Hamlet

D. King Lear

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Which novel by Emily Bront� features the characters Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw?

A. Jane Eyre

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Sense and Sensibility

D. Middlemarch

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Which English poet wrote The Tyger and The Lamb, both part of his collection Songs of Experience and Songs of Innocence?

A. William Blake

B. John Keats

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. William Wordsworth

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Who wrote the play A Raisin in the Sun, which explores racial and social issues in America?

A. Lorraine Hansberry

B. August Wilson

C. Langston Hughes

D. Zora Neale Hurston

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Who wrote the novel In Cold Blood, a true crime story based on the murder of the Clutter family in Kansas?

A. Truman Capote

B. Norman Mailer

C. Harper Lee

D. John Updike

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In Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, what is the name of Victor Frankenstein's creature?

A. Adam

B. The Monster

C. Prometheus

D. Igor

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What is the title of the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, set in the fictional town of Macondo and known for its magical realist elements?

A. One Hundred Years of Solitude

B. Love in the Time of Cholera

C. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

D. The Autumn of the Patriarch

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Who is the author of the novel Fahrenheit 451, which explores themes of censorship and intellectual freedom in a dystopian society?

A. Ray Bradbury

B. Aldous Huxley

C. George Orwell

D. Philip K. Dick

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Which American author is known for his works set in the American South, including As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury?

A. William Faulkner

B. Tennessee Williams

C. Harper Lee

D. Eudora Welty

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Which English poet is known for his metaphysical poetry and wrote The Flea and To His Coy Mistress?

A. John Milton

B. John Donne

C. Andrew Marvell

D. George Herbert

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Which American author wrote The Sun Also Rises, a novel that explores the experiences of the Lost Generation after World War I?

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. John Steinbeck

D. Sinclair Lewis

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Which Greek poet is credited with composing the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey?

A. Homer

B. Hesiod

C. Sappho

D. Pindar

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A. Kurt Vonnegut

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