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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was the tale of a woman who was ostracized and marked with a letter A on her clothes. What did this letter A stand for?
Adultery
Abandonment
Abomination
Avarice
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole was an influential American comedy about absurd characters who all lived in what city?
New Orleans
Olympia
Cleveland
Yutika
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Science fiction was forever changed by what story by Frank Herbert about a noble who starts a spiritual revolution on a desert planet where "spice" is harvested?
Dune
Star Trek
King Spirit
Abraxis
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The Red Badge of Courage was a story by author Stephen Crane about a soldier who fought in what major war?
The Revolutionary War
The Civil War
World War One
World War Two
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Vincent Bugliosi wrote one of the most important American nonfiction books in the form of Helter Skelter. This book chronicled the life and crimes of what infamous person?
John Wayne Gacey Jr.
Ted Bundy
Aleister Crowley
Charles Manson
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What famous author wrote the works The House of Myrth and The Age of Innocence which thoroughly criticized America's wealthy East Coast elites?
Edith Wharton
Willa Cather
Suzette Carn
Mallory Davis
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"anyone lived in a pretty how town" and "next to of course god america i" are two of the most famous poems by what American modernist writer known for disregarding grammatical rules in his work?
William Faulkner
Ralph Waldo Emerson
David Foster Wallace
E. E. Cummings
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The Leatherstocking Tales were famous western and pioneer stories by what early American author?
Elmore Leonard
Howard Pleasance
James Fenimore Cooper
Herman Melville
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was a critical example of what type of journalism where writers captured more of the emotional experience of an event or place rather than its physical details?
Crosby journalism
Mundus journalism
Gonzo journalism
Wako journalism
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Which of the following is a famous collection of novellas written by the author Richard Wright to explore race relations in the 20th Century?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Children
Uncle Tom's Coffin
Uncle Tom's Nephew
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The revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense became a cornerstone of American rhetoric after it was written by what famous patriot?
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
John Adams
James Madison
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Edward Bellamy described his view of a possible American utopia in which of the following books about a man who is frozen in 1888 and wakes up in the future?
Beyond the Ridgeline
Childhood's End
Looking Backward
I Saw the Stars
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Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote what famous poem about a wealthy socialite who ended his life for reasons no one could understand?
Fairbanks' Shadow
The Wasteland
The Spoon River Anthology
Richard Cory
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"The World Is Not a Pleasant Place to Be" and "Knoxville, Tennessee" are two of the famous poems by what writer?
Toni Morrison
Rosie Hamm
Nikki Giovanni
Alice Walker
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Gone with the Wind tells the tale of what fictional heroine as she falls in love with the suave southern gentleman Rhett Butler?
Scarlett O'Hara
Ruby Day
Missy Townshend
Ruth Potter
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Laura Ingles Wilder is perhaps most famous for writing what series of pioneer tales about surviving the American wilderness?
Pippy Longstocking
Sister Susan
Pollyanna
The Little House on the Prairie
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"The Gift of the Magi" and "The Ransom of Red Chief" are famous short stories written by what comical author known for his dramatic twists of irony?
O. Henry
Jack London
L. Frank Baum
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What nephew of Siegmund Freud is known as "The Father of Public Relations and Advertising" because of his books like Crystalizing Public Opinion and Propaganda?
Robert Frost
William Randolph Hearst
Vladimir Nabokov
Edward Bernays
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What American writer of works like the Foundation trilogy and I, Robot is considered one of the country's pioneers of science fiction literature?
Michael Crichton
Upton Sinclair
Isaac Asimov
Ray Bradbury
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American Pastoral is one of the defining 20th Century novels by what influential writer known for dissecting the U.S. through allegory?
Oscar Holzheimer
James Patterson
Cormac McCarty
Philip Roth
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The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, and The Bonesetter's Daughter are all stories written by what author known for portraying the experience of growing up as a Chinese-American during a time when such voices didn't really have representation in literature?
Margaret Main
Eliza Chu
Anya Hsu
Amy Tan
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Carl Sanburg is a legendary American writer perhaps best known for penning the biography of what president after his assassination?
James Garfield
William McKinley
Abraham Lincoln
John F. Kennedy
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"Mending Wall," "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," and "The Road Not Taken," are three influential poems by what artist who conveyed the Romanticism of rural American life?
Robert Frost
Truman Capote
Herschel Seller
Henry Farmer
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Edgar Lee Masters wrote what famous collection of poems that chronicled the lives of departed individuals who all shared the same burial place?
Spoon River Anthology
Dark Fruit
Cane
My Lenore
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Louisa May Alcott wrote the novel Little Women which told the story of what group of sisters?
The Osterlind Sisters
The March Sisters
The Chamberlain Sisters
The Stewart Sisters
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Langston Hughes was one of the poets who embodied the Harlem Renaissance in America. Before gaining success as a poet, Hughes famously worked as which of the following?
A busboy
A janitor
A mailman
A checkout clerk
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What western story by Cormac McCarthy introduced the world to the infamous villain Judge Holden?
Blood Meridian
Unforgiven
Last Train Home
Prairie Dog
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Ursula Le Guin wrote the Earthsea series as well as what famous philosophical short story about a utopia built upon a dark secret?
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
The Goldfinch
Misère Me! How I Sold the World
From Cradle to Grave: The Tale of an Evening
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a famous poem about what Revolutionary war figure and his Midnight Ride?
John Hancock
Benajmin Franklin
George Washington
Paul Revere
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The Story of My Life was the unassuming title of what famous woman's autobiography explaining how she gained the gift of language despite being deaf and blind?
P. L. Travers
Abigail Adams
Helen Keller
Ruth Kerschner
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