Famous Autobiographical Novels: Quiz and Answers

Quiz

1. Which Charles Dickens' novel is also a partially autobiographical work, with events mirroring his own life?
2. Which book is Charlotte Bronte's powerful autobiographical novel about one woman's search for true love?
3. Sons and Lovers is a 1913 semi-autobiographical work by which author?
4. Published in 1920, who wrote This Side of Paradise, which examines the lives of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age?
5. First published in 1929, which novel is a first-person account set during the Italian campaign of World War I by Ernest Hemingway?
6. Who wrote The Mill on the Floss in 1860?
7. Name the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott?
8. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the early years of which American writer and poet?
9. On the Road is a 1957 novel by which American writer who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation?
10. The End of the Affair is a 1951 novel by which English author?
11. Tropic of Cancer is an autobiographical novel by which American author?
12. Which novel by W. Somerset Maugham is strongly autobiographical in nature?
13. The Bell Jar is the only novel written by which American writer and poet?
14. Who wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a 1971 novel in the gonzo journalism style?
15. To the Lighthouse is which English writer's most autobiographical novel?

Answers

1. David Copperfield
2. Villette
3. D. H. Lawrence
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. A Farewell to Arms
6. George Eliot
7. Little Women
8. Maya Angelou
9. Jack Kerouac
10. Graham Greene
11. Henry Miller
12. W. Somerset Maugham
13. Sylvia Plath
14. Hunter S. Thompson
15. Virginia Woolf