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Q: Natty Bumppo, one of the first American literary heroes, was the lead character in which novel?
A: THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS by James Fenimore Cooper
CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
MOBY DICK by Herman Melville
RABBIT, RUN by John Updike
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