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American Passages

Visit our companion site, American Passages. Produced in conjunction with Oregon Public Broadcasting, this rich site includes an archive featuring over 3,000 images, audio clips, presentation software, and more.

Welcome to the Student Studyspace for The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Eighth Edition. This free student website helps students understand individual works and appreciate the places, sounds, and sights of American literature. The site features a variety of review material, including: more than 70 multiple-choice reading comprehension quizzes on widely-taught individual works; bulleted summaries of the anthology introductions; timelines; access to the American Passages image archive; literary places and author portrait galleries, and maps.

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Reading Comprehension QuizzesLiterary PlacesAmerican Passages ArchiveAuthor Portrait Gallery

Reading Comprehension Quizzes

Reading Comprehension Quizzes with detailed answer feedback for more than 70 widely-taught works help you gauge how well you’ve understood the story, poem, or play.

Literary Places

Maps, images, and Google tours offer a practical way to (virtually) visit Thoreau’s Walden Pond, Faulkner’s Oxford, Mississippi, home, Cather’s Nebraska plains, and other literary places.

American Passages Archive

This resource features a searchable online archive of over 3,000 items, including visual art, audio files, primary-source materials, and additional texts to support and enrich the understanding of American literature. Students can also use a slide-show tool to create their own multimedia presentations.

Author Portrait Gallery

Meet and greet your favorite American authors.