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CSET English American Literature

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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