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stephzh

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The writer who faded to obscurity in the nineteenth century but was recognized as one of America's greatest literary geniuses in the twentieth century and wrote the masterpiece work of fiction, Moby Dick, was
 
  a. Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  b. Henry David Thoreau.
  c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  d. Herman Melville.
  e. Walt Whitman.

Question 2

A dark writer whose genres included poetry, horror stories, and detective fiction was
 
  a. Edgar Allan Poe.
  b. Herman Melville.
  c. Sherlock Holmes.
  d. Walt Whitman.
  e. Henry David Thoreau.



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

a



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