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CLEP Composition and Literature: American Literature, English Literature, Humanities (Page 9 )

Updated On: 21-Feb-2026
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Which Boston Brahmin poet published The Courtship of Miles Standish in 1858?

  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  2. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  3. John Greenleaf Whittier
  4. Emily Dickinson
  5. Henry David Thoreau

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published The Courtship of Miles Standish in 1858. Of the other answer choices, only Oliver Wendell Holmes is numbered among the Brahmin Poets.



What is the setting for the protagonist’s walk with the devil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown?

  1. The gardens of a country estate
  2. A path in the forest
  3. The streets of a slum community
  4. A church graveyard
  5. The halls of a courthouse

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Young Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith to walk through a dark and forbidding forest with the devil.



Which American president was the inspiration for Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain!

  1. Andrew Jackson
  2. George Washington
  3. Ulysses S. Grant
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. Abraham Lincoln

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

“O Captain! My Captain!” was inspired by the assassination of President Lincoln. Walt Whitman was a great admirer of President Lincoln and published a number of poems inspired by the great leader’s life and tragic death.



Which of the following was the preeminent female essayist of the Transcendentalist period in American literature?

  1. Edith Wharton
  2. Phillis Wheatley
  3. Margaret Fuller
  4. Emily Dickinson
  5. Ellen Glasgow

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Margaret Fuller worked as a teacher and editor and wrote about transcendentalism, women’s rights, critical theory, gender roles, and related subjects.



Which of the following is set among a cannibalistic tribe in the Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific?

  1. Typee
  2. Moby Dick
  3. The Marble Faun
  4. A Paumanok Picture
  5. Thanatopsis

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Herman Melville’s first novel was based on this experience living with the supposedly cannibalistic Taipis of the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific.






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