Books & authors
The “American literature: from Twain to Morrison” quiz — Books & authors. It has 25 questions in five categories: Fictional Faces, On the Map, Prize Shelf, Plot and Form, Writer's Desk. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which Fitzgerald millionaire throws lavish Long Island parties to draw Daisy Buchanan back to him?
What nickname does Atticus Finch's daughter use while narrating a novel set in Alabama?
Which sailor narrates…
In the gameWho returns to Eatonville…
In the gameIn Beloved, which formerly…
In the gameIn which city do Holly Golightly and the narrator live in Breakfast at Tiffany's?
Which river, pictured here, carries Huck and Jim on their raft in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
In The House on…
In the gameIn The Left Hand…
In the gameWhat fictional Southern county…
In the gameWhich Harper Lee novel won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Which Alice Walker novel won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
Which Colson Whitehead novel…
In the gameWhich Louise Erdrich novel…
In the gameWhich Charles Yu novel…
In the gameWhich Ray Bradbury novel imagines firefighters who burn books?
Which Stephen King novel traps a writer in the home of his biggest fan?
Which Octavia Butler novel…
In the gameWhich Stephen Chbosky novel…
In the gameWhich Jennifer Egan novel…
In the gameWhat pen name did Samuel Clemens use for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Who wrote the memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Who wrote The Joy…
In the gameWhich essayist published Notes…
In the gameWho wrote science fiction…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.