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Free CLEP Composition and Literature Exam Braindumps (page: 16)

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The fictional village of Starkfield, setting of Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, is located in which state?

  1. Louisiana
  2. California
  3. Massachusetts
  4. New York
  5. Florida

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Ethan Frome is set in the village of Starkfield, in western Massachusetts.



Which of the following was a political radical who argued for women’s rights and against capitalism?

  1. Flannery O’Connor
  2. Pearl S. Buck
  3. Dorothy Parker
  4. Eudora Welty
  5. Emma Goldman

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

Emma Goldman was a Russian Jewish émigré who viewed the capitalist system as the source of oppression of all people, especially women.



Which author associated manhood and maturity with nonconformity?

  1. Henry David Longfellow
  2. Willa Cather
  3. Mark Twain
  4. Carl Sandburg
  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

In Self-Reliance, Emerson argues that individuals must answer to the truth they discover in their own hearts rather then blindly following the expectations of society. For Emerson, nonconformity is the sign of true moral maturity.



All of the following wrote of heroes wandering the open roads of America EXCEPT

  1. James Fenimore Cooper
  2. Henry James
  3. Walt Whitman
  4. Jack Kerouac
  5. John Steinbeck

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Each of the authors listed wrote about lonely travelers of America’s open roads and wilderness except for Henry James, who focused instead on the moral and intellectual life of more settled Americans.






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