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American Literature: test yourself
19 unit quizzes, a mid exam, and a 100-question final modeled on the CLEP American Literature blueprint. Everything is free to take. Passing the final unlocks a verifiable certificate.
Unit quizzes
- Reading Poetry: Line, Sound, Form, Figure
- Reading Prose and Drama: Voice, Plot, Style
- Beginnings: Native Oral Traditions, Contact, Exploration
- Puritan New England
- Enlightenment, Revolution, and the New Republic
- The New Nation: Irving, Cooper, and the First American Fiction
- Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller
- The Dark Romantics: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
- Slavery, Reform, and the Woman Question
- Whitman and Dickinson
- Realism and Regionalism
- Naturalism and the Turn of the Century
- The Harlem Renaissance
- Modernist Poetry
- Modernist Fiction and Drama
- Postwar Fiction, 1945–1975
- Postwar Poetry and Drama
- Contemporary and Multicultural Voices
- Capstone: The Exam, the Bands, the Sample Questions
Answers are checked as you go, each with the lesson to review.
Mid exam
A checkpoint on the first half of the course, drawn fresh from a pool of 100 each time. Scored at the end, with a breakdown by content area and the lessons to review.
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Scored 20–80; 50 passes. Weighted like the exam blueprint: 1945 to the present 21%, 1800 to 1865 17%, 1865 to 1910 17%, 1910 to 1945 17%, reading poetry, prose, and drama 15%, beginnings to 1800 13%.
One passing attempt unlocks the certificate. Attempts are unlimited with a 24-hour wait, each a fresh draw.
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Free to take, paid to certify
Quizzes, the mid exam, and the final are free. The only paid item is the issued, verifiable certificate, unlocked by passing the final. It comes with this badge to download and post.
StudyWalks finals are modeled on the CLEP exam blueprint in scope, format, and rigor. Scores are StudyWalks scores, not CLEP scores, and are not affiliated with or recognized by the College Board.