Author Quiz

1. Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?

2. A reader encounters a talking raven, a telltale heart, and a detective named C. Auguste Dupin. Which author connects these works and characters?

3. Who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?

4. Which playwright wrote both Hamlet and Macbeth?

5. Which author created Don Quixote and his practical companion, Sancho Panza?

6. Which pairing correctly identifies the authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, in that order?

7. Pip, Miss Havisham, and Estella appear in a Victorian novel first published in installments. Who wrote it?

8. To whom is The Odyssey traditionally attributed?

9. A novel follows Winston Smith in Oceania, where the Party uses constant surveillance and rewrites history. Who wrote it?

10. Frankenstein uses letters and nested narratives to tell the story of Victor Frankenstein and the being he creates. Who wrote the novel?

11. Saleem Sinai narrates a life intertwined with the birth of independent India in Midnight's Children. Who wrote the novel?

12. Which Harlem Renaissance author wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God, the story of Janie Crawford's search for an independent voice?

13. Who wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude?

14. Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman haunted by the past, is the central character of Beloved. Who wrote the novel?

15. Josef K. is arrested without being told his crime and becomes trapped in an opaque legal system in The Trial. Who wrote the novel?

16. Raskolnikov wrestles with guilt and moral justification after committing murder in Crime and Punishment. Who created the character?