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Herewith a selection of rather well-known facts about U.S. books, plays and writers - 1801-1900.
Who was Huckleberry Finn's companion on the raft?
Jeff
Jack
Jess
Jim
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Flask, Pip, and Stubb are characters in what novel?
Puddin'head Wilson
Moby Dick
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Omoo
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What author wrote The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and Twice-Told Tales?
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
Louisa May Alcott
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What novel is Stephen Crane's best-known work?
The Red Badge of Courage
The Blue Hotel
Upturned Face
The Open Boat
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When President Lincoln received this author at the White House in 1862, legend has it he exclaimed, "So this is the little lady who made this big war?"
Harriet Lane
Louisa May Alcott
Charlotte Cushman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What New York author created the characters Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle?
Damon Runyon
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Washington Allston
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Which one of these titles is not the work of Edgar Allan Poe?
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
The Gold Bug
The Haunted Palace
The Oval Portrait
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The actor Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905) portrayed a single character almost exclusively for more than forty years. What was that character's name?
Edmond Dantes
Rip Van Winkle
Hamlet
Scrooge
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Progress: 9 of 10 questions
Who wrote The Education of Henry Adams?
William Dean Howells
William James
Henry James
Henry Adams
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"I'm nobody! Who are you? / Are you nobody too?" begins a poem penned by what poet?
William Cullen Bryant
Walt Whiman
Emily Dickinson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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