Question 1

Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

Accepted Answer

Scott Fitzgerald

Answer

William Faulkner

Answer

John Steinbeck

Answer

Ernest Hemingway

Question 2

What novel is a coming-of-age story set in the southern United States during the 1930s?

Accepted Answer

To Kill a Mockingbird

Answer

The Catcher in the Rye

Answer

Lord of the Flies

Answer

1984

Question 3

What Shakespeare play follows the young Prince of Denmark as he schemes to avenge his father's murder?

Accepted Answer

Hamlet

Answer

Macbeth

Answer

Romeo and Juliet

Answer

Othello

Question 4

Who wrote the epic poem Paradise Lost?

Accepted Answer

John Milton

Answer

William Wordsworth

Answer

John Keats

Answer

Percy Shelley

Question 5

What novel tells the story of the Joad family's experiences during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

The Grapes of Wrath

Answer

Of Mice and Men

Answer

The Sun Also Rises

Answer

The Sound and the Fury

Question 6

What play is about a black family's experiences in the Washington Park neighborhood of Chicago?

Accepted Answer

A Raisin in the Sun

Answer

Death of a Salesman

Answer

The Glass Menagerie

Answer

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Question 7

What play is about a group of men who work on a railroad gang in the American West in the 1890s?

Accepted Answer

The Lonesome West

Answer

The Crucible

Answer

Angels in America

Answer

Glengarry Glen Ross

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