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Which writer helped create the local-colour school in American fiction?
Sam Lawson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Edward Eggleston
Bret Harte
2
Mark Twain’s real name was Samuel Clemens.
False
True
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Can you guess the classic American tragedy from these emojis? 💑🏰🌹⚔️💔🧪🌹
William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
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Do you enjoy this quiz?
True
False
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Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
J. D. Salinger
William Shakespeare
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What is the main genre of American literature?
Horror
Fiction and nonfiction
Fantasy
Thriller
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Who wrote the first book released by a major publisher to portray Orthodox Judaism in the United States?
Thomas Pynchon
Saul Bellow
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Chaim Potok
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Who is known as the “Father of American Literature”?
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walt Whitman
Mark Twain
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Early American literature began around the 1600s.
True
False
10
Toni Morrison wrote Harry Potter
False
True
11
Can you guess which book this cover belongs to?
Summer Sisters
Little Women
The Girls
The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants
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The story The Adventures of Tom Sawyer takes place along the Mississippi River.
True
False
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Which American writer is considered the originator of the modern detective story?
Mark Twain
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Harriet Beecher Stowe
14
The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved are novels by Ernest Hemingway
False
True
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Independence, individualism, freedom, nationalism, and slavery are the main ideas of American literature!
False
True
