Autobiographies of Artists and Writers

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Which artist's autobiography is titled The Story of My Life?

  1. Vincent van Gogh

  2. Claude Monet

  3. Pablo Picasso

  4. Michelangelo


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Claude Monet's autobiography, The Story of My Life, was published posthumously in 1921.

Who wrote the autobiography My Life, My Art?

  1. Frida Kahlo

  2. Georgia O'Keeffe

  3. Artemisia Gentileschi

  4. Mary Cassatt


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Frida Kahlo's autobiography, My Life, My Art, was published in 1944.

Which writer's autobiography is titled The Education of Henry Adams?

  1. Henry James

  2. Mark Twain

  3. Henry Adams

  4. Nathaniel Hawthorne


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Henry Adams' autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, was published in 1918.

Who wrote the autobiography The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin?

  1. Thomas Jefferson

  2. Benjamin Franklin

  3. John Adams

  4. Alexander Hamilton


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, was published posthumously in 1868.

Which artist's autobiography is titled Diaries?

  1. Edvard Munch

  2. Wassily Kandinsky

  3. Paul Klee

  4. Piet Mondrian


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Edvard Munch's autobiography, Diaries, was published posthumously in 1950.

Who wrote the autobiography The Life of Charlotte Brontë?

  1. Charlotte Brontë

  2. Emily Brontë

  3. Anne Brontë

  4. Elizabeth Gaskell


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, was published in 1857.

Which writer's autobiography is titled The Story of My Life?

  1. Helen Keller

  2. Anne Sullivan Macy

  3. Alexander Graham Bell

  4. Mark Twain


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, was published in 1903.

Who wrote the autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom?

  1. Frederick Douglass

  2. Harriet Tubman

  3. Sojourner Truth

  4. William Wells Brown


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Frederick Douglass' autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom, was published in 1855.

Which artist's autobiography is titled The Life of Benvenuto Cellini?

  1. Michelangelo

  2. Leonardo da Vinci

  3. Raphael

  4. Benvenuto Cellini


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography, The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, was published posthumously in 1728.

Who wrote the autobiography The Autobiography of Malcolm X?

  1. Malcolm X

  2. Alex Haley

  3. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  4. James Baldwin


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Malcolm X's autobiography, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, was published posthumously in 1965.

Which writer's autobiography is titled The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

  1. Voltaire

  2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  3. Denis Diderot

  4. Montesquieu


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, was published posthumously in 1782.

Who wrote the autobiography The Life of John Stuart Mill?

  1. John Stuart Mill

  2. Harriet Taylor Mill

  3. Alexander Bain

  4. John Morley


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

John Stuart Mill's autobiography, The Life of John Stuart Mill, was published posthumously in 1873.

Which artist's autobiography is titled The Journals of Eugène Delacroix?

  1. Eugène Delacroix

  2. Théodore Géricault

  3. François Rude

  4. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Eugène Delacroix's autobiography, The Journals of Eugène Delacroix, was published posthumously in 1893.

Who wrote the autobiography The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell?

  1. Bertrand Russell

  2. A.J. Ayer

  3. G.E. Moore

  4. Ludwig Wittgenstein


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Bertrand Russell's autobiography, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, was published in three volumes between 1967 and 1969.

Which writer's autobiography is titled The Education of Henry Adams?

  1. Henry James

  2. Mark Twain

  3. Henry Adams

  4. Nathaniel Hawthorne


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Henry Adams' autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, was published in 1918.

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