American Literature CLEP Prep Practice Exam

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Who wrote Walden?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry David Thoreau

Walden is a famous transcendentalist book that was written by Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau is the correct answer because he is the only author on the list who was famous for writing transcendentalist works. Nathaniel Hawthorne, J.D. Salinger, and Emily Dickinson were all writers, but they were known for their fiction and poetry, not for transcendentalist literature.

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J.D. Salinger

Emily Dickinson

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