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Authors of Short Stories

Description: This quiz tests your knowledge on the authors of famous short stories.
Number of Questions: 15
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Who wrote the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

  1. Edgar Allan Poe

  2. Nathaniel Hawthorne

  3. Herman Melville

  4. Washington Irving


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart" in 1843.

Who is the author of the short story "The Gift of the Magi"?

  1. O. Henry

  2. Mark Twain

  3. Jack London

  4. Bret Harte


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

O. Henry wrote the short story "The Gift of the Magi" in 1905.

Which author wrote the short story "The Cask of Amontillado"?

  1. Edgar Allan Poe

  2. Nathaniel Hawthorne

  3. Herman Melville

  4. Washington Irving


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" in 1846.

Who is the author of the short story "The Monkey's Paw"?

  1. W.W. Jacobs

  2. H.G. Wells

  3. Arthur Conan Doyle

  4. Rudyard Kipling


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

W.W. Jacobs wrote the short story "The Monkey's Paw" in 1902.

Which author wrote the short story "The Lady or the Tiger"?

  1. Frank R. Stockton

  2. Mark Twain

  3. Bret Harte

  4. Jack London


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Frank R. Stockton wrote the short story "The Lady or the Tiger" in 1882.

Who is the author of the short story "The Necklace"?

  1. Guy de Maupassant

  2. Honoré de Balzac

  3. Alexandre Dumas

  4. Victor Hugo


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Guy de Maupassant wrote the short story "The Necklace" in 1884.

Which author wrote the short story "The Lottery"?

  1. Shirley Jackson

  2. Ray Bradbury

  3. Isaac Asimov

  4. Arthur C. Clarke


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Shirley Jackson wrote the short story "The Lottery" in 1948.

Who is the author of the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find"?

  1. Flannery O'Connor

  2. Carson McCullers

  3. Eudora Welty

  4. Harper Lee


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Flannery O'Connor wrote the short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" in 1953.

Which author wrote the short story "Cathedral"?

  1. Raymond Carver

  2. John Updike

  3. John Cheever

  4. Tobias Wolff


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Raymond Carver wrote the short story "Cathedral" in 1981.

Who is the author of the short story "The Things They Carried"?

  1. Tim O'Brien

  2. Bobbie Ann Mason

  3. Richard Ford

  4. Ann Beattie


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Tim O'Brien wrote the short story "The Things They Carried" in 1990.

Which author wrote the short story "Interpreter of Maladies"?

  1. Jhumpa Lahiri

  2. Bharati Mukherjee

  3. Amitav Ghosh

  4. Vikram Seth


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Jhumpa Lahiri wrote the short story "Interpreter of Maladies" in 1999.

Who is the author of the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

  1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  2. Kate Chopin

  3. Edith Wharton

  4. Sarah Orne Jewett


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" in 1892.

Which author wrote the short story "Hills Like White Elephants"?

  1. Ernest Hemingway

  2. F. Scott Fitzgerald

  3. William Faulkner

  4. John Dos Passos


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Ernest Hemingway wrote the short story "Hills Like White Elephants" in 1927.

Who is the author of the short story "The Dead"?

  1. James Joyce

  2. William Butler Yeats

  3. Sean O'Casey

  4. George Bernard Shaw


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

James Joyce wrote the short story "The Dead" in 1914.

Which author wrote the short story "The Garden Party"?

  1. Katherine Mansfield

  2. Virginia Woolf

  3. D.H. Lawrence

  4. E.M. Forster


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Katherine Mansfield wrote the short story "The Garden Party" in 1922.

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