Who is the author of the novel The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical work about a young woman's struggle with mental illness?

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Who is the author of the novel The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical work about a young woman's struggle with mental illness?

A. Sylvia Plath

B. Anne Sexton

C. Adrienne Rich

D. Maya Angelou

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A. John Milton

B. John Donne

C. Andrew Marvell

D. George Herbert

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A. J.D. Salinger

B. Kurt Vonnegut

C. Jack Kerouac

D. John Updike

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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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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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Which American poet is known for his confessional poetry and wrote Daddy and Lady Lazarus?

A. Sylvia Plath

B. Anne Sexton

C. Adrienne Rich

D. Maya Angelou

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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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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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Which American author wrote The Scarlet Letter, set in Puritan New England and exploring themes of sin and redemption?

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Herman Melville

C. Edgar Allan Poe

D. Washington Irving

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In William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, who is the character known for his glasses and intellect?

A. Ralph

B. Piggy

C. Jack

D. Simon

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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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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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What is the title of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most famous novel, set in the 1920s?

A. The Great Gatsby

B. To Kill a Mockingbird

C. The Catcher in the Rye

D. Moby-Dick

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Which play by Arthur Miller is an allegory for McCarthyism and the Red Scare in America during the 1950s?

A. The Glass Menagerie

B. Death of a Salesman

C. The Crucible

D. A Streetcar Named Desire

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Who wrote the poem The Raven, known for its melancholic atmosphere and refrain of Nevermore?

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Washington Irving

D. Emily Dickinson

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Who is the author of the novel The Grapes of Wrath, which portrays the struggles of the Joad family during the Great Depression?

A. John Steinbeck

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. William Faulkner

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Who wrote the poem The Second Coming, which includes the lines Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold?

A. William Butler Yeats

B. W.H. Auden

C. Robert Frost

D. T.S. Eliot

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

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Herman Melville

C. Mark Twain

D. Washington Irving

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A. Chinua Achebe

B. Wole Soyinka

C. Ngugi wa Thiong'o

D. Buchi Emecheta

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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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Which American playwright wrote Death of a Salesman, which examines the American Dream and its impact on a struggling family?

A. Arthur Miller

B. Tennessee Williams

C. Eugene O'Neill

D. August Wilson

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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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What is the title of the novel by Jane Austen, where the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, navigates issues of class, love, and marriage?

A. Pride and Prejudice

B. Emma

C. Sense and Sensibility

D. Persuasion

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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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In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, what is the name of the powerful ring that is the central focus of the story?

A. The One Ring

B. The Ring of Power

C. The Ring of Sauron

D. The Precious

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Which Greek playwright is known for his tragedies, including works like Oedipus Rex?

A. Aeschylus

B. Sophocles

C. Euripides

D. Aristophanes

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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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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 wrote the novel Middlemarch, which explores various social and political issues in 19th-century England?

A. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

B. Charlotte Bront�

C. Jane Austen

D. Emily Bront�

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Who wrote the novel To the Lighthouse, known for its exploration of consciousness and stream-of-consciousness narrative style?

A. Virginia Woolf

B. D.H. Lawrence

C. E.M. Forster

D. James Joyce

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A. Sylvia Plath

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