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CSET English American Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who wrote The Pathfinder - during the Nationalist period (1828-1836) of American






2. 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






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






4. Who wrote Walden - during the American Renaissance Period (1830-1860) of American Literature






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






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






7. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Jack Kerouac






8. Who wrote - 'Oh Captain - My Captain!' - during the American Renaissance Period (1830-1860) of American Literature






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






10. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Edgar Allan Poe






11. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Increase Mathers






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






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






14. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Ernest Hemingway






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Edith Wharton






22. Who wrote - The Tenth Muse - during the Colonial Period (1630-1760) of American Literature






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






24. Who wrote - The Naked and the Dead - during Postmodern period (1950-1970) of American Literature






25. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Norman Mailer






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






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






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






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






30. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: James Fenimore Cooper






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer






39. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: Common Sense by Thomas Paine






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Who wrote - The Call of the Wild - during the Modern period (1900-1950) of American Literature






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