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

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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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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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Who is the author of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a landmark work of magic realism?

A. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

B. Jorge Luis Borges

C. Isabel Allende

D. Pablo Neruda

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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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A. Jane Eyre

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Sense and Sensibility

D. Middlemarch

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A. John Milton

B. John Donne

C. Andrew Marvell

D. George Herbert

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Who wrote the poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, which includes the refrain Rage, rage against the dying of the light?

A. W.B. Yeats

B. Dylan Thomas

C. John Keats

D. William Wordsworth

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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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In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, what historical event serves as an allegorical backdrop for the story?

A. The Salem Witch Trials

B. The American Revolution

C. The Civil War

D. The French Revolution

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A. Chinua Achebe

B. Wole Soyinka

C. Ngugi wa Thiong'o

D. Buchi Emecheta

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A. Zora Neale Hurston

B. Toni Morrison

C. Maya Angelou

D. Alice Walker

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

A. Sophocles

B. Aeschylus

C. Euripides

D. Aristophanes

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Who wrote the play 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 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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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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Who wrote the poem The Waste Land, a key work of modernist poetry?

A. T.S. Eliot

B. W.B. Yeats

C. Ezra Pound

D. Robert Frost

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A. Toni Morrison

B. Maya Angelou

C. Alice Walker

D. Zora Neale Hurston

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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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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 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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A. W.B. Yeats

B. T.S. Eliot

C. Ezra Pound

D. Wallace Stevens

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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

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A. Tender Is the Night

B. This Side of Paradise

C. The Beautiful and Damned

D. The Great Gatsby

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A. Wuthering Heights

B. Villette

C. Jane Eyre

D. Agnes Grey

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A. Anton Chekhov

B. Leo Tolstoy

C. Fyodor Dostoevsky

D. Maxim Gorky

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A. Eugene O'Neill

B. Arthur Miller

C. Tennessee Williams

D. August Wilson

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Who is the author of the play Waiting for Godot, characterized by its absurdist themes and minimalistic setting?

A. Samuel Beckett

B. Harold Pinter

C. Tom Stoppard

D. Anton Chekhov

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In Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility, which two sisters are the central characters?

A. Elinor and Marianne Dashwood

B. Jane and Elizabeth Bennet

C. Emma and Harriet Smith

D. Catherine and Isabella Morland

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A. Jane Eyre

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Villette

D. Agnes Grey

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A. Robert Frost

B. Langston Hughes

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Walt Whitman

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A. T.S. Eliot

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