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CSET English American Literature

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






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






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






4. Who wrote The Raven - and Tell Tale Heart - during the Nationalist period (1828-1836) of American Literature






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






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






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






8. Who wrote - The Death of a Salesman - during the Postmodern period (1950-1970) of American Literature






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Identify the literary period with which the author/piece if associated: The Declaration of Independence






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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: Jack London






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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