Question 1
Which author wrote the novel about Scout Finch growing up in Alabama?
- Harper Lee
- Flannery O'Connor
- Carson McCullers
- Eudora Welty
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Harper Lee
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American Literature trivia quiz
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What the American Literature questions cover
- Harlem Renaissance
- American Drama
- American Poetry
- Native Literature
- Gothic Fiction
- Modernism
- Postmodernism
- Postwar Fiction
- Southern Gothic
- African American
- Asian American
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Question 2
Which author created the Mississippi River adventures of Huck and Jim?
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Mark Twain
- Jack London
- Herman Melville
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Mark Twain
Question 3
Which writer composed the poem featuring a bird that repeatedly says “Nevermore”?
- Robert Frost
- Walt Whitman
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Edgar Allan Poe
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