American Literature CLEP Prep Practice Exam

Who wrote the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

1. Ernest Hemingway

2. Nathaniel Hawthorne

3. F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. Mark Twain

The correct answer is: Mark Twain

The other options are incorrect because A: Ernest Hemingway was an American journalist and novelist who wrote The Old Man and the Sea and won a Nobel Prize in Literature. He is not known for writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. B: Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote The Scarlet Letter. He is not known for writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. C: F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote The Great Gatsby. He is not known for writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.