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Who wrote the screenplay for the film "The Big Sleep?"

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William Faulkner

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Which of the following poets was influenced by the "confessional" style of her teacher Robert Lowell?

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Sylvia Plath

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What book was poorly received due to its frank discussion of female sexuality?

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The Awakening
Kate Chopin

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What authors were famous for contrasting Americans and Europeans in character portraits?

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Henry James and Edith Wharton

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This Side of Paradise

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Which novel follows an American volunteer fighting for the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil war?

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Poem:-In Just?

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ee Cummings

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Which author used the literary conceit of time travel to lampoon religion and society?

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Mark Twain

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The Adventures of Augie March

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Saul Bellow

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Babbit

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Sinclair Lewis

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What is a semi-autobiographical account of early twentieth-century life in the American South?

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Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe

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The U.S.A trilogy series?

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John Dos Passos

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1. The 42nd Paralell
2. 1919
3. The Big Money

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The U.S.A Trilogy
John Dos Passos

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A Plea for Religious Liberty

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Roger Williams

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Author/Governor of Rhode Island

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Roger Williams

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What business makes the principal character of The Rise of Silas Lapham wealthy?

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Paint, central theme in book

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Which book co-authored by Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain attacked sentimental American myths of financial success?

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The Gilded age

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Renascence and Other Poems

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Edna St Vincent Millay

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Which book was hailed by Alfred Kazin as "the most profound novel of Jewish life by an American

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Call it sleep
Henry Roth

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Which playwright chronicles several decades of the African American experience in a thematically connected series of plays?

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Langston Hughes

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The beautiful, delicate glass animals in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie are symbolic of

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Laura's fragile psychological state

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The 1884 Seneca Falls Convention was notable because it marked the formal beginning of the civil rights movement for

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Women

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Edgar Allen Poe is considered part of which movement?

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Romantic

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Which author based his story of four men stranded in a dinghy on his own experience during an ill-fated trip to Cuba?

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Stephen Crane the Open Boat

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What best describes the poetry of William Carlos Williams?

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Full of concrete images from everyday life.

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Which writer is most closely associated with Italian Fascism?

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Ezra Pound

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Which author wrote Go Tell It on the Mountain based in part on his or her experience as a teenage preacher?

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Ralph Ellison

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Which author was heavily influenced by reading of T. H. Huxley and Herbert Spencer?

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Theodore Dreiser (Social Darwinists)

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Which of the following authors recorded the life and times of the "lost generation" in the book Exile's Return?

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Malcolm Cowley

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"Upon a Spider Catching a Fly."

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Edward Taylor

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"The Song of Hiawatha."

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Longfellow

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Which work by Washington Irving first established him as a Romantic author?

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The Sketch Book

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Who was known as a revivalist and "theologian of the heart"?

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Jonathan Edwards

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Pastor of Northampton Massachusets inspired religious revivals throughout U.S.

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Jonathan Edwards

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A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God (1738),

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Jonathan Edwards

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Rebecca Harding Davis' writing is considered by most critics to be

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Realist

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Which author wrote several novels containing the unusual combination of realism and elements from fairy tales?

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Mark Twain
Prince and the Pauper
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court

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Which poet described his/her work as applying the cubist technique of Pablo Picasso to writing?

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Gertrude Stein

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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Langston Hughes

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In a Station of the Metro

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Ezra Pound

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in Just

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e.e. Cummings

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Tamar

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Robinson Jeffers

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To Brooklyn Bridge

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Hart Crane

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What is the title of Saul Bellow's novel in which a middle-aged millionaire is driven to Africa by his unsatisfied ambitions?

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Henderson the Rain King

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Which woman was a leader of the Settlement House movement and author of Twenty Years at Hull House?

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Jane Addams

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Which of the following novels describes urban life during turn-of-the-century America without moralizing about the failures of its major characters?

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Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser

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What poet is best known for capturing the spirit of American individualism and democracy?

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Walt Whitman

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Which poet developed a personal aestheticism in Harmonium, Ideas of Order, and Parts of a World?

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Wallace Stevens

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The background for the love affair in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms is..

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WWI

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Tyrone Slothrop is the central character in..

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Gravitys Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon

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How did Colonel Pyncheon acquire the plot of land for the House of the Seven Gables?

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He had the previous owner burned at the stake.

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During which year was the Harlem Renaissance at its peak?

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1920

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Mark Twain's criticism of James Fenimore Cooper helped divide..

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Realists from Romantics

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Which of the following writers campaigned with Susan B. Anthony to win female suffrage?

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Which writer was a student of Henry David Thoreau?

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Louisa May Alcott

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The Dial was mainly known for having published..

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Trasncendentalism literature

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The Souls of Black Folk.

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WEB Dubois

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_________is best known for his description of American elite class, not the poor.

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Henry James

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Which William Faulkner novel involves three separate narrations of the legend of Thomas Sutpen?

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Absalom!Absalom!

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W. E. B. Du Bois' opposition to Booker T. Washington centered on Washington's

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Failure to demand equal rights for African Americans

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Which poet is known for creating complex literary allusions?

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T.S. Elliot

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Jonathan Edwards' The Freedom of the Will attempts to..

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Reconcile the freedom of the will with the determinism of Calvinism

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The concept of the "over-soul" is associated with the writing of

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Community of being that unites humans to nature and their God.

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The oversoul

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Regionalism and Local Color fiction grew into prominence following

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The Civil War

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WhichColonial author is seen by many critics as a precursor of the Romantic movement?

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Charles Brockden Brown

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In Moby Dick, before the character Queequeg left New Zealand, he was a...

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Prince

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In The Great Gatsby, how does Myrtle Wilson die?

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Daisy Buchanan runs her over

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At the end of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the great marlin is...

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Eaten by sharks

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In The Bluest Eye, which actresses represent a standard of beauty that is threatening to the African American narrator?

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Shirley Temple

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William Dean Howell's Silas Lapham is..

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A self made millionaire (paint company)

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Which of the following authors wrote a stanza to commemorate the Battle of Concord?

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Emerson

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century, the first examination of American women's role in society, was written by...

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Margaret Fuller

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The life of the March family is portrayed in which of the following novels?

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Little Women

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In which work does Emerson argues, "Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?"

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Nature

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Which poem did Emerson write in honor of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?

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Boston Hymn

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To whom was William Bradford referring to when he used the term "Saint" to describe some of his fellow voyagers at sea?

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Fellow puritans

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Who has earned the nickname "The Father of the American Novel"?

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Charles Brockden Brown

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Who wrote the first American slave autobiography after obtaining his freedom?

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Olaudah Equiano

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American author created detective fiction?

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Poe

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Who was the preeminent female essayist of the transcendentalist period in American literature?

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Margaret Fuller

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Protagonist, Henry Fleming, is a soldier in the Union Army.

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The Red Badge of Courage

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Considered one of Theodore Dreiser's greatest works, this book tells the story of a poor young man's futile effort to achieve social and financial success; the attempt ends in his execution for murder.

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An American Tragedy

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The main character of Chopin's The Awakening is...

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Edna Pontellier

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The autobiography of Booker T. Washington is..

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Up from Slavery

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Which novelist and critic wrote the successful play The Mouse Trap in 1889 that was set in the Boston Back Bay neighborhood?

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William Dean Howells

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The fictional village of Starkfield, setting of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, is located in which state?

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Massachusets

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Who was a political radical who argued for women's rights and against capitalism?

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Emma Goldman

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A Russian Jewish émigré who viewed the capitalist system as the source of oppression of all people, especially women.

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Emma Goldman

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Which writer who described his poetic style as objectivist aimed to bring an almost photographic clarity to his work with concrete images?

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William Carlos Williams

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Which modern poet wrote poetry while working as an insurance executive?

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Wallace Stevens

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Which poet wrote the epic poem "Paterson" about his/her hometown of Paterson, NJ?

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William Carlos Williams

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Which African-American poet integrated the rhythms of blues and jazz into his/her poetry?

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Langston Hughes

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Which Eugene O'Neill play is an autobiographical account of his Irish-American family?

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Long Day's Journey into Night

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What novel traces the development of a young Jewish boy growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression?

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The Adventures of Augie March

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In which novel are African-American boys cruelly tormented in the "Battle Royal"?

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Invisible Man

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Which author is known as "the Chekhov of the Suburbs" for his writings about the social mores and emotional yearnings of upper-middle class suburban families?

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John Cheever

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Betty Friedan's work—which inspired the woman's movement in the 1960s—is entitled

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The Feminine Mystique

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Which Toni Morrison novel tells of Milkman Dead's search for identity?

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The Song of Solomon

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Which author wrote Grendel, a retelling of the Old English epic Beowulf from the monster's point of view?

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John Gardner

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Harry Angstrom is the protagonist of which work?

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Run Rabbit Run

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Which author wrote the semi-autobiographical Pnin about an ineffectual professor?

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Vladimir Nabokov