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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?

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Edgar Allan Poe
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Herman Melville
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Walt Whitman
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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.


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