Which nineteenth-century author created the proto type of the strong, silent American hero of fiction and drama, who keeps his own counsel and relies only on his own judgment?
A
Edgar Allan Poe
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B
James Fenimore Cooper
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C
Herman Melville
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D
Walt Whitman
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E
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Solution
The correct option is B James Fenimore Cooper James Fenimore Cooper's hero Hawkeye/Deerslayer/Natty Bumppo was the prototype of the strong, silent, self-reliant American hero familiar to movie audiences throughout the twentieth century and to readers of Hemingway and many other fiction writers.