Authors of Short Stories

This quiz tests your knowledge on the authors of famous short stories.

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the short story "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

  1. Edgar Allan Poe
  2. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  3. Herman Melville
  4. Washington Irving
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. Edgar Allan Poe
  2. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  3. Herman Melville
  4. Washington Irving
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. Frank R. Stockton
  2. Mark Twain
  3. Bret Harte
  4. Jack London
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. Guy de Maupassant
  2. Honoré de Balzac
  3. Alexandre Dumas
  4. Victor Hugo
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author wrote the short story "The Lottery"?

  1. Shirley Jackson
  2. Ray Bradbury
  3. Isaac Asimov
  4. Arthur C. Clarke
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which author wrote the short story "Cathedral"?

  1. Raymond Carver
  2. John Updike
  3. John Cheever
  4. Tobias Wolff
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. Jhumpa Lahiri
  2. Bharati Mukherjee
  3. Amitav Ghosh
  4. Vikram Seth
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. Ernest Hemingway
  2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  3. William Faulkner
  4. John Dos Passos
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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

  1. Katherine Mansfield
  2. Virginia Woolf
  3. D.H. Lawrence
  4. E.M. Forster