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Death of a Salesman was a ground-breaking play that was written by what American author?
John Steinbeck
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Ronald Duncan
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L. Frank Baum wrote multiple fantasy tales that took place in what mystical land?
Avalon
Middle-Earth
Narnia
Oz
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Go Tell It on the Mountain was an influential semi-autobiographical novel written by what American author?
Thomas Sowell
Gorden Love
Michael Coorse
James Baldwin
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What is the name of the horror author who wrote classic stories like "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Call of Cthulhu"?
H. P. Lovecraft
Stephen King
Robert Howard
Michael Crichton
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Willa Cather wrote what famous novel about a young man's recollections of life on the American frontier and his friendship with the girls he met there?
Our Jessica
My Anotnia
Today, Michelle
I Love Eloise
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Henry David Thoreau transformed American transcendentalist literature with his book of essays written on his time living at what pond?
Walden Pond
Tiber Pond
McGuffrey Pond
Kohomon Pond
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the famous autobiography of what American poet and writer?
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Bell Hooks
Alice Walker
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Ambrose Bierce was the author behind a famous short story titled "An Occurrence at (Blank) Bridge." Fill in the blank.
Owl Creek
Green Snake
Rooster Crow
Ice Night
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The Catcher in the Rye followed the adventures of what petulant young man who hated "phonies"?
Holden Caulfield
Robert Hester
Mitchell Gross
Timothy Unger
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What is the common name given to the monster that appeared in Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
The sasquatch
The creature of the Black Lagoon
The headless horseman
The wolfman
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The Great Gatsby was one of the glamorous novels written by what socialite author?
A. A. Milne
Edwin Arlington Robinson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Howard McKinley
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was a socially influential text that enflamed the slavery debate and potentially inspired some to begin what American war that pitted North and South against one another?
The Revolutionary War
The Civil War
The War of 1812
World War One
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Their Eyes Were Watching God was a novel by what famous author?
Zora Neale Hurston
Alice Walker
Nikki Giovanni
Toni Morrison
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What was the name of the Upton Sinclair novel that inspired the reform of America's meat-packing industry?
Golden Road
London Fields
Heart of Darkness
The Jungle
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What John Steinbeck novel told the story of two farm workers George and Lenny?
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
Pearl
Man on the Moon
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What is the name of the Herman Melville novel that told the tale of sailors hunting down "The great white whale"?
The Old Man and the Sea
Riptide
Moby Dick
Paradise Lost
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A Farewell to Arms was one of the defining Modernist novels by what "Lost Generation" author?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Roald Dahl
Ernest Hemingway
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A Streetcar Named Desire was one of the famous plays by what American writer?
J. D. Salinger
Ray Bradbury
O. Henry
Tennessee Williams
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury envisioned a world where which of the following was banned by the government to control the flow of information?
Computers
Books
Certain thoughts
Spoken words
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The Story of My Life was a best-selling autobiography that introduced what woman's life story to the world at-large?
Louisa May Alcott
Missy Madison
Ruth Owlherst
Helen Keller
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"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" was a southern gothic tale by what famous American author?
Frances Harper
Lousia May Alcott
Edith Wharton
Flannery O'Connor
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What author is known for writing the novel Beloved?
Nikki Giovanni
Alice Walker
Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Pit and the Pendulum" were two classic horror short stories by what American writer?
Robert W. Chambers
Robert E. Howard
Stephen King
Edgar Allan Poe
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What was the name of the famous 1845 autobiography by abolitionist and social reformer Frederick Douglass?
My Time in Bondage and My Life Beyond
Frederick Douglass: Up from Slavery
Song of Myself
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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In Mark Twain's Huckelberry Finn, the main character takes a raft down what American river?
The Potomac River
The Colorado River
The Ohio River
The Mississippi River
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What text by Betty Friedan helped begin Second Wave Feminism following its release in 1963?
The Feminine Mystique
The Second Sex
Fighting Along
Digging Deep
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Catch-22 is a classic American novel by what author?
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Heller
E. E. Cummings
A. A. Milne
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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird centered on a legal case that was headed by what lawyer protagonist?
Allan Diggsby
Graham Tuttle
Atticus Finch
Noah Conklin
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The Sound and the Fury was one of the acclaimed works of what American literary figure?
William Wordsworth
Alexander Pope
Geoff Hailey
William Faulkner
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The Call of the Wild was one of the Alpine novels of what famous American writer?
Jack London
Milton Ives
O. Henry
Stephen Foster
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