* What play by the Minnesota playwright, August Wilson, won the Pulitzer Prize for his Drama in 1987 and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for an outstanding play?
* What resident of St. Paul, Minnesota was the author of the book, 'Caddie Woodlawn', which won the Newberry Medal for best children's book of the year?
* What famous Minnesota-born sculptor created the design for the Buffalo Head nickel coin which remained in production from 1913 to 1938?
* What Minnesota-born author was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
* What young author whose family farmed near Walnut Grove, Minnesota wrote a series of 'Little House' books. Her books gained additional recognition as a result of Michael Landon's TV series called, 'Little House on the Paire'?
* What author and illustrator born in New Ulm, Minnesota received the Caldecot Honor Award for two of her written and illustrated books?
* What Minnesota-born author wrote 'This Side of Paradise'?
* What Minnesota-born author won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for 'Outstanding Literature for Young Adults'?
* Modernist in style, traditionalist in content, this native Mississippian, born in 1897, situated a lot of his novels in Yoknapatawpha County. Some titels: "Absolom, Absolom!"; "As I Lay Dying" and "The Sound and the Fury". Who is this man?
* Which of these is NOT a section in Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'?
* Which of these stories did Herman Melville NOT write?
* Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'. Which is NOT usually cited as a reason that he did so?
* This former slave wrote a novel about his or her early life and was used (and misused) by abolitionists as an example of an intelligent black person.
* Where did Emily Dickinson spent almost all of her adult life?
* Not always considered writers in the American Romantic style, which two authors shared tales of supernatural phenomena and storytelling prowess that surpassed the other Romantics?
* Which was NOT a main focus of the American Romantic movement in general?
* Which of the following American Romantics made a public display of not accepting Christ?
* Whitman's poetry was received poorly by the masses, who found it sexually deviant and crude. However, one very influential man thought it brilliant, and called Whitman the poet America was waiting for. Who was it?
* What is in 'Moby Dick' the name of the tattooed cannibal whom Ishmael meets at the Spouter Inn in New Bedford and who later turns out to be an excellent friend during the quest for the white whale ?
* In Melville's Moby Dick story there is a prophecy that Captain Ahab must see two hearses at sea before he can be killed.The first 'not made by mortal man', the second 'grown in America'. Moreover it is said he can only be killed by _______________?