Women Writers Quiz

The answers appear after the last question, number 16.

1. Who was called "the great and glorious pendulum" by Henry James?

a. Gwendolyn Brooks
b. Edith Wharton
c. Edna Ferber
d. Edith Hamilton

2. Where did Emily Dickinson live?

a. New England
b. California
c. Paris, France
d. Alaska

3. What native of Jackson, Mississippi wrote Delta Wedding?

a. Carson McCullers
b. Flannery O'Connor
c. Virginia Woolf
d. Eudora Welty

4. Where in the United States did Flannery O'Connor set most of her short stories and novels?

a. the South
b. the West
c. the East
d. Maine

5. Which of the following novels did Carson McCullers write?

a. Optimist's Daughter
b.A Saigon Party
c. Uncle Tom's Cabin
d. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

6. Where did Willa Cather grow up?

a. Nebraska
b. New Hampshire
c. New York
d. North Dakota

7. Who did Abraham Lincoln call "the little woman who started the Civil War"?

a. Dorothy Thompson
b. Louisa May Alcott
c. Harriet Beecher Stowe
d. Sue Grafton

8. Anne Bradstreet was what kind of writer?

a. historian
b. poet
c. screenwriter
d. playwright

9. Who wrote Little Men?

a. Louisa May Alcott
b. Harriet Beecher Stowe
c. Isak Dinesan
d. Mary Ann Evans

10. Who wrote, "Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses"?

a. Lucy Stone
b. Virginia Woolf
c. George Sand
d. Dorothy Parker

11. Who wrote The Mill on the Floss?

a. George Eliot
b. George Sand
c. Gloria Steinem
d. May Sarton

12. Who wrote Mansfield Park?

a. Emily Post
b. Helen Hunt Jackson
c. Colette
d. Jane Austen

13. Which of the following novels did Virginia Woolf write?

a. Pride and Prejudice
b. To the Lighthouse
c. Women in Love
d. Memories Are Like Clouds

14. Who wrote The Ballad of the Sad Cafe?

a. Jane Austen
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Carson McCullers
d. George Eliot

15. Who said, "My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much."?

a. Lillian Hellman
b. Lady Astor
c. Shirley Booth
d. Clara Yacura

16. Which Baby Boomer wrote Memories Are Like Clouds?

a. Pamela Reed
b. Diana Dell
c. Cher
d. Sally Field

Answers: 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-a, 5-d, 6-a, 7-c, 8-b, 9-a, 10-d, 11-a, 12-d, 13-b, 14-c, 15-a, 16-b

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