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The Authors Quiz

Let's check your knowledge of literary authors...

Posted: May 19, 2010
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Question#1

Which American author served as diplomatic attache to Spain?

  • Washington Irving
  • Edgar Allen Poe
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Mark Twain
Question#2

On what subject did Boston author Lucius Manlius Sargent write?

  • Temperance
  • Piracy
  • Manifest destiny
  • States' rights
Question#3

What famous author and teacher is buried in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.?

  • Edgar A. Poe
  • Booker T. Washington
  • George Washington Carver
  • Helen Keller
Question#4

Who authored the `Babar` series of children's books?

  • A.A. Milne
  • Enid Bagnold
  • P.L. Travers
  • Jean de Brunhoff
Question#5

Which author wrote `The Soft Machine` and `Nova Express`?

  • e. e. cummings
  • William S. Burroughs
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Edna Ferber
Question#6

Which science fiction author was also known for his design of a communications satellite?

  • Jules Verne
  • Arthur C. Clarke
  • H.G. Wells
  • Ray Bradbury
Question#7

Who is the Japanese author of `The Silent Cry` and `A Personal Matter` who received a noble prize in 1994?

  • Yasunari Kawabata
  • Eisaku Sato
  • Kenzaburo Oe
  • Hideki Yukawa
Question#8

Who was the author of `Guys and Dolls`, the story on which the Broadway musical and movie were based?

  • Virginia Woolf
  • James Thurber
  • Damon Runyon
  • Eugene O'Neill
Question#9

Who is the author of the `Left Behind` series?

  • Tim Lahaye
  • Robert Carmack
  • John Lindsey
  • They all wrote a part of it.
Question#10

The 1984 film `A Passage to India` is based on the work of which author?

  • Virginia Wolff
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Lytton Strachey
  • E. M. Forster