Praxis 5047 Major Authors UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Lois Lowry - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Giver, Number the Stars
Louis Sacher - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Holes
Mildred Taylor - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Patricia Maclachlan - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Shiloh
William Armstrong - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Sounder
Elizabeth George Speare - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Madeline L'Engle - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting
Planet, A Wind in the Door, The Small Rain, 24 Days before Christmas
Ruth Avi - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Gary Paulson - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Hatchet
Mark Twain - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
, Caroline Cooney - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Voice on the Radio
Robert Cormier - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Chocolate War
Sandra Cisneros - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The House on Mango Street
Walter Dean Myers - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Glory Field
Alice Walker - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Color Purple; American author, self-
declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
S.E. Hinton - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Outsiders
George Orwell - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote 1984, Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist
totalitarianism
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Yearling
Scott O'Dell - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
Jean Craighead George - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jack London - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Call of the Wild, Sea-Wolf, White Fang
JRR Tolkein - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Hobbit
CS Lewis - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Lois Lowry - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Giver, Number the Stars
Louis Sacher - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Holes
Mildred Taylor - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Patricia Maclachlan - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Sarah Plain and Tall
Phyllis Reynolds Taylor - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Shiloh
William Armstrong - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Sounder
Elizabeth George Speare - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Witch of Blackbird Pond
Madeline L'Engle - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote A Wrinkle in Time, A Swiftly Tilting
Planet, A Wind in the Door, The Small Rain, 24 Days before Christmas
Ruth Avi - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Gary Paulson - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Hatchet
Mark Twain - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
, Caroline Cooney - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Voice on the Radio
Robert Cormier - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Chocolate War
Sandra Cisneros - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The House on Mango Street
Walter Dean Myers - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Glory Field
Alice Walker - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Color Purple; American author, self-
declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
S.E. Hinton - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Outsiders
George Orwell - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote 1984, Animal Farm; dark satire on Stalinist
totalitarianism
Marjorie Kinnan Rawling - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Yearling
Scott O'Dell - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Island of Blue Dolphins
Jean Craighead George - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote Julie of the Wolves
Jack London - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Call of the Wild, Sea-Wolf, White Fang
JRR Tolkein - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Hobbit
CS Lewis - CORRECT ANSWER - wrote The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
