AMLS Pretest Exam Questions and
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Which group of American writers no longer dominated the literary scene after World War II? -
✔✔Eurocentric Americans
The rapidly developing journalism industry, flourishing in America, helped produce the great
generation of writers in the period following which period? - ✔✔Civil War
Who wrote "Everyday Use" and The Color Purple? - ✔✔Alice Walker
The denouement comes ___. - ✔✔after the falling action
Which of the following is not a genre? - ✔✔essay
What great American poet saw fewer than 20 poems published in her lifetime but is recognized
today for her short, passionate, symbolic verse? - ✔✔Emily Dickinson
What author lived in and chronicled the "Jazz Age" of the 1920s and wrote "Babylon Revisited"
and The Great Gatsby? - ✔✔F. Scott Fitzgerald
Which of the following issues is not central to our understanding of the American Civil War and
its impact on the American writing that ensued? - ✔✔Economics
What American writer claimed it was not just our right as Americans, but also our duty, to defy
unjust laws and has subsequently influenced social leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and
Martin Luther King? - ✔✔Henry David Thoreau
Verified Answers
Which group of American writers no longer dominated the literary scene after World War II? -
✔✔Eurocentric Americans
The rapidly developing journalism industry, flourishing in America, helped produce the great
generation of writers in the period following which period? - ✔✔Civil War
Who wrote "Everyday Use" and The Color Purple? - ✔✔Alice Walker
The denouement comes ___. - ✔✔after the falling action
Which of the following is not a genre? - ✔✔essay
What great American poet saw fewer than 20 poems published in her lifetime but is recognized
today for her short, passionate, symbolic verse? - ✔✔Emily Dickinson
What author lived in and chronicled the "Jazz Age" of the 1920s and wrote "Babylon Revisited"
and The Great Gatsby? - ✔✔F. Scott Fitzgerald
Which of the following issues is not central to our understanding of the American Civil War and
its impact on the American writing that ensued? - ✔✔Economics
What American writer claimed it was not just our right as Americans, but also our duty, to defy
unjust laws and has subsequently influenced social leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and
Martin Luther King? - ✔✔Henry David Thoreau
