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CSET English American Literature

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1. Who wrote - A Plain Discourse Showing Who Shall and Who Shall not Enter Heaven - during the Colonial Period (1630-1760) of American Literature






2. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Crevecoeur.






3. Who wrote - Common Sense - during the Revolutionary period (1760-1789) of American Literature






4. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Charles Frazier






5. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Anne Bradstreet






6. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Walden by Henry David Thoreau






7. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Arthur Miller






8. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper






9. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece is associated: History of the Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford






10. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Letters from an American Farmer Crevecoeur.






11. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Moby Dick by Herman Melville






12. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Alice Walker






13. Who wrote - History of the Plymouth Plantation - during the Colonial Period (1630-1760) of American Literature






14. Who wrote The Color Purple - Contemporary American Literature (1970- present)?






15. Who wrote - The House of Mirth - during the Modern period (1900-1950) of American Literature






16. Who wrote Nature - during the Nationalist period (1828-1836) of American Literature






17. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: A Plain Discourse Showing Who Shall and Who Shall not Enter Heaven by Increase Mathers






18. Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans - during the Nationalist period (1828-1836) of American






19. Who wrote Breathing Lessons - Contemporary (1970- present) American Literature?






20. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Ralph Waldo Emerson






21. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: The Raven and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe






22. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler






23. Who wrote The Deerslayer - during the Nationalist period (1828-1836) of American






24. Who wrote The Pioneers - during the Nationalist period (1828-1836) of American






25. Who wrote - Lately Sprung Up in American during the Colonial Period (1630-1760) of American Literature






26. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: 'Oh Captain - My Captain!' by Walt Whitman






27. Who wrote The Pathfinder - during the Nationalist period (1828-1836) of American






28. Who wrote Leatherstocking Tales - during the Nationalist period (1828-1836) of American Literature






29. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: The Tenth Muse by Anne Bradstreet






30. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier






31. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Jack London






32. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: William Bradford






33. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated:The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller






34. Who wrote The Prairie - during the Nationalist period (1828-1836) of American






35. Who wrote Moby Dick - during the American Renaissance Period (1830-1860) of American Literature






36. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Henry David Thoreau






37. Who wrote - The Sun Also Rises - during the Modern period (1900-1950) of American Literature






38. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Walt Whitman






39. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Herman Melville






40. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: The Color Purple by Alice Walker






41. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: The Call of the Wild by Jack London






42. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: On the Road by Jack Kerouac






43. Who wrote - Letters from an American Farmer - and What is an American? - during the Revolutionary period (1760-1789) of American Literature






44. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Thomas Paine






45. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Anne Tyler






46. Who wrote - One the Road - during the Postmodern period (1950-1970) of American Literature






47. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton






48. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway






49. Who wrote Cold Mountain - Contemporary (1970- present) American Literature?






50. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Lately Sprung Up in American by Anne Bradstreet