Jack London attributed his success as a writer to which of the following experiences?

W.E.B. Du Bois was a founding member of what organization?

This author was a cynic who was called “the wickedest man in San Francisco” because of the harsh critiques he wrote as a journalist. Many think he was killed in Mexico during the war.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wall-paper” to draw attention to her experiences with schizophrenia.

Emily Dickinson found great comfort in her faith that she would spend eternity in heaven after death.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was wildly popular after its publication.

Some noteworthy realist authors chose to focus their literary relism on the interior psychological states of their fictional characters.

Which author was an influential theorist and activist for women’s rights?

Emily Dickinson received more critical acclaim and commercial success in her lifetime than Twain did in his.

The idea of the “Great American Novel” emerged decades before the Civil War.