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Books and Authors MCQs

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Question #121
'The Cherry Orchard' is a play by which Russian author?
A. Anton Chekhov
B. Leo Tolstoy
C. Alexander Pushkin
D. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
Anton Chekhov wrote 'The Cherry Orchard'.
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Question #122
Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?
A. Ivan Turgenev
B. Fyodor Dostoevsky
C. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
D. Leo Tolstoy
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote 'Crime and Punishment'.
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Question #123
'War and Peace' is a novel by which Russian author?
A. Alexander Pushkin
B. Nikolai Gogol
C. Leo Tolstoy
D. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
Leo Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace'.
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Question #124
Who wrote 'Anna Karenina'?
A. Leo Tolstoy
B. Fyodor Dostoevsky
C. Ivan Turgenev
D. Mikhail Sholokhov
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Correct Answer: Option A

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Leo Tolstoy wrote 'Anna Karenina'.
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Question #125
'The Brothers Karamazov' is a novel by which author?
A. Nikolai Gogol
B. Fyodor Dostoevsky
C. Leo Tolstoy
D. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote 'The Brothers Karamazov'.
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Question #126
Who wrote 'The Idiot'?
A. Ivan Turgenev
B. Gogol
C. Leo Tolstoy
D. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote 'The Idiot'.
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Question #127
'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' is by which author?
A. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
B. Nikolai Gogol
C. Mikhail Sholokhov
D. Boris Pasternak
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote this novella about a Gulag prisoner.
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Question #128
Who wrote 'Dr. Zhivago'?
A. Vladimir Nabokov
B. Boris Pasternak
C. Mikhail Bulgakov
D. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Boris Pasternak wrote 'Dr. Zhivago'.
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Question #129
'The Master and Margarita' is a novel by which Russian author?
A. Vladimir Nabokov
B. Mikhail Bulgakov
C. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
D. Ivan Turgenev
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Mikhail Bulgakov wrote 'The Master and Margarita'.
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Question #130
Who wrote 'Lolita'?
A. Vladimir Nabokov
B. Boris Pasternak
C. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
D. Mikhail Bulgakov
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
Vladimir Nabokov wrote 'Lolita'.
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Question #131
'Pale Fire' is a novel by which author?
A. J.D. Salinger
B. Philip Roth
C. John Updike
D. Vladimir Nabokov
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
Vladimir Nabokov wrote 'Pale Fire'.
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Question #132
Who wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
A. John Steinbeck
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
D. J.D. Salinger
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
J.D. Salinger wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'.
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Question #133
'The Great Gatsby' is a novel by which author?
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. William Faulkner
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
D. John Steinbeck
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote 'The Great Gatsby'.
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Question #134
Who wrote 'A Farewell to Arms'?
A. John Steinbeck
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. William Faulkner
D. Ernest Hemingway
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
Ernest Hemingway wrote 'A Farewell to Arms'.
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Question #135
'For Whom the Bell Tolls' is a novel by which author?
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Sinclair Lewis
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faulkner
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
Ernest Hemingway wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'.
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Question #136
Who wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
A. Herman Melville
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Jack London
D. Joseph Conrad
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Ernest Hemingway wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'.
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Question #137
'The Grapes of Wrath' is a novel by which American author?
A. John Dos Passos
B. John Steinbeck
C. Upton Sinclair
D. John Steinbeck (yes)
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
John Steinbeck wrote 'The Grapes of Wrath'.
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Question #138
Who wrote 'East of Eden'?
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. William Faulkner
D. John Steinbeck
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
John Steinbeck wrote 'East of Eden'.
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Question #139
'The Sound and the Fury' is a novel by which Southern author?
A. Flannery O'Connor
B. William Faulkner
C. Carson McCullers
D. Eudora Welty
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
William Faulkner wrote 'The Sound and the Fury'.
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Question #140
Who wrote 'As I Lay Dying'?
A. William Faulkner
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Sinclair Lewis
D. John Steinbeck
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
William Faulkner wrote 'As I Lay Dying'.
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