CLEP Humanities : Identifying Titles, Authors, or Schools of Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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Example Questions

Example Question #44 : Identifying Titles, Authors, Or Schools Of Fiction

Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans?

Possible Answers:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jack London

Sir Walter Scott

Victor Hugo

James Fenimore Cooper

Correct answer:

James Fenimore Cooper

Explanation:

The Last of the Mohicans was written by American James Fenimore Cooper and published in 1826. It is the second book in his Leatherstocking Tales series which takes place during the mid-18th century on the American East Coast. Jack London wrote primarily adventure novels such as Call of the Wild.  Victor Hugo is best known for Les Miserables andThe Hunchback of Notre Dame. Sir Walter Scott wrote Ivanhoe and Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island.

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