The Writer Who Faded to Obscurity in the Nineteenth Century

question 23

Multiple Choice

The writer who faded to obscurity in the nineteenth century but was recognized as one of America's greatest literary geniuses in the 20^th 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.

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