American Literature CLEP Prep Practice Exam 2026 – All-in-One Study Guide for Exam Success

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Who wrote the modernist novel The Sound and the Fury?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nathaniel Hawthorne

J.D. Salinger

William Faulkner

The other choices are incorrect because they all belong to different literary movements or time periods. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer during the Jazz Age, Nathaniel Hawthorne was a romantic/transcendentalist author, and J.D. Salinger was a part of the post-World War II generation. William Faulkner, on the other hand, was known for his experimentation with modernist literature, making him the author of The Sound and the Fury.

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