United States History Question of the Day


Frederic Edwin Church's "The Icebergs" (1861),
an example of American Romanticism in art
(Source:Wikimedia Commons--public domain)


Question 010014:

"Call me Ishmael" is the opening line of what famous example of 19th century American Romantic literature?

    (A)   The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
    (B)    Moby Dick by Herman Melville
    (C)    Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
    (D)    The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
    (E)    The dying need but little, dear by Emily Dickinson


Answer and explanation