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Which American poet is known for her reclusive lifestyle and unique use of dashes in her poetry?

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Sylvia Plath

C. Anne Sexton

D. Adrienne Rich

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A. Emily Dickinson


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Who wrote the novel The Stranger (L'�tranger) which explores the absurdity of human existence?

A. Albert Camus

B. Jean-Paul Sartre

C. Simone de Beauvoir

D. Franz Kafka

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Who wrote the poem The Road Not Taken, which includes the famous lines Two roads diverged in a wood, and I / I took the one less traveled by?

A. Robert Frost

B. Langston Hughes

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Walt Whitman

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Who wrote the play Long Day's Journey into Night, a semi-autobiographical work centered on a dysfunctional family?

A. Eugene O'Neill

B. Arthur Miller

C. Tennessee Williams

D. August Wilson

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

A. August Wilson

B. Lorraine Hansberry

C. Langston Hughes

D. Zora Neale Hurston

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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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Who wrote the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which addresses issues of racial injustice in the American South?

A. Harper Lee

B. Truman Capote

C. John Steinbeck

D. Toni Morrison

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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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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 novel The Old Man and the Sea, which tells the story of an aging fisherman's struggle with a giant marlin?

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. John Steinbeck

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. William Faulkner

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

A. Boxer

B. Napoleon

C. Snowball

D. Old Major

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In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, what is the name of Jay Gatsby's love interest?

A. Daisy Buchanan

B. Jordan Baker

C. Myrtle Wilson

D. Nick Carraway

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Which poet is known for writing Leaves of Grass, a collection of poems celebrating individualism and the human spirit?

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Walt Whitman

C. Langston Hughes

D. Robert Frost

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Which novel by Mary Shelley features the character Victor Frankenstein and his creation?

A. Dracula

B. The Picture of Dorian Gray

C. Frankenstein

D. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Who wrote the poem The Waste Land, known for its complex structure and themes of cultural disillusionment?

A. T.S. Eliot

B. W.B. Yeats

C. Ezra Pound

D. Wallace Stevens

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In George Orwell's essay Shooting an Elephant, what does the elephant represent symbolically?

A. Imperialism

B. Freedom

C. Democracy

D. Enlightenment

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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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Which of Shakespeare's plays features the characters Iago and Desdemona?

A. Othello

B. Macbeth

C. Julius Caesar

D. Romeo and Juliet

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Who wrote the poem Because I could not stop for Death, which explores the journey from life to death?

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Robert Frost

C. Langston Hughes

D. Walt Whitman

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Who wrote the novel Things Fall Apart, which explores the clash of cultures during British colonialism in Nigeria?

A. Chinua Achebe

B. Wole Soyinka

C. Ngugi wa Thiong'o

D. Buchi Emecheta

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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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Who wrote the play A Doll's House, which addresses issues of gender roles and societal expectations?

A. Henrik Ibsen

B. August Strindberg

C. Anton Chekhov

D. Eugene O'Neill

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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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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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Who wrote the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which explores themes of decadence and moral corruption?

A. Oscar Wilde

B. Henry James

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. D.H. Lawrence

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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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Which American poet wrote Song of Myself and was a prominent figure in the transcendentalist movement?

A. Walt Whitman

B. Emily Dickinson

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

D. Henry David Thoreau

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Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?

A. Emily Bront�

B. Jane Austen

C. Charles Dickens

D. Charlotte Bront�

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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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Which Russian author wrote the novel Crime and Punishment, exploring themes of guilt and redemption?

A. Fyodor Dostoevsky

B. Leo Tolstoy

C. Anton Chekhov

D. Ivan Turgenev

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Who is the author of the novel Invisible Man, which explores themes of identity and racism in America?

A. James Baldwin

B. Ralph Ellison

C. Richard Wright

D. Toni Morrison