Nobel and Pulitzer Prize (Literature, Drama, Poetry) Quiz

Place the Nobel Prize winning authors in chronological order

• William Faulkner

• William Butler Yeats

• Rudyard Kipling

• Pearl S. Buck

• Pablo Neruda

Match the Pulitzer Prize winner to the correct novel

• The Optimist's Daughter

• Thornton Wilder

• To Kill a Mockingbird

• Harper Lee

• The Bridge of San Luis Rey

• Ernest Hemingway

• The Old Man and the Sea

• Eudora Welty

• The Grapes of Wrath

• John Steinbeck

The American recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature, who has a "poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal," is

The native Texan and recipient of the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her collection of short stories and short novels, The Collected Stories, is

• Katherine Anne Porter

• Jean Stafford

• Elizabeth Strout

• Alice Walker

• Eudora Welty

The recipient of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his "metafictional musical" ​ ​ (a)   , which "tracks the creative process of an artist," is ​ ​ ​ (b)  

• A Strange Loop
• Michael R. Jackson
• Our Town
• The Hot Wing King
• Fat Ham
• Annie Baker
• Lynn Nottage

Which author has NOT won a Pulitzer Prize?

• William Faulkner

• Alice Walker

• Jeffrey Eugenides

• Viet Thanh Nguyen

• Italo Calvino

​ (a)   wrote the book ​ (b)   .

• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Mathilda
• Jane Austen
• Lord Byron
• Carrie
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Match the author to his works

• Leaves of Grass

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride

• Henry David Thoreau

• Self-Reliance

• Walt Whitman

• Civil Disobedience

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The acclaimed novelist, poet, short story and nonfiction writer who wanted, early on, to be a cartoonist and is the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction for the novels Rabbit Is Rich (1982) and Rabbit at Rest (1991) is

• William Faulkner

• Larry McMurtry

• John Steinbeck

• John Updike

• John Kennedy Toole

he songwriter, actor, playwright, and filmmaker who received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his musical Hamilton is

• Horton Foote

• David Lindsay-Abaire

• David Mamet

• Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Paul Zindel