1. Emerson encouraged people to learn from the great people of the past who gave their name to whole periods.

2. Wolfe stole money from Kirby?

3. John Saffin supported the institution of slavery in colonial Massachusetts

4. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. In this work the author argues in favour of…

5. Although Steinbeck wrote about people from California, he himself was born and lived in New York City.

6. In The Pearl, what starts off as a great opportunity later become nothing but sadness and destruction.

7. 'The Scarlet Letter' perfectly reflected transcendentalist themes of mystery,fright, and the occult.

8. Sir Walter Scott had an immense impact on American literature with his historical novels cast in historical settings, intermingling historical people with fictional characters.

9. The Southern States were the center for printing and publishing.

10. Near the end of The Pearl, the little child, Coyotito, drowns in the river.

11. John Steinbeck worked for a while as a farm laborer. His experiences showed him how to survive and gave him material for his later writings like The Grapes of Wrath.

12. Among the many jobs Mark Twain had, he was a riverboat captain.

13. William Carlos Williams wrote the poem 'The Red Wheelbarrow' which, like T.S. Eliot's poetry, contained complex images and allusions.

14. Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens.

15. The Pearl takes place in rural South America.

16. Henry David Thoreau believed that the Mexican War was immoral because it advanced the cause of slavery.

17. John Steinbeck's The Pearl was originally a folk tale.

18. As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burthened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness. The word 'tenement' is another word for 'residence.'

19. Peter Van der Donk was a real New Netherlands historian.

20. 'Mingled with fine wheat and the fat of a new-born babe,' said the shape of old goodman Brown. 'Ah, your worship knows the receipt,' cried the old lady, cackling aloud. 'So, as I was saying, being all ready for the meeting, and no horse to ride on, I made up my mind to foot it; for they tell me, there is a nice young man to be taken into communion to-night. But now your good worship will lend me your arm, and we shall be there in a twinkling.' The word 'receipt' in this context means 'a written acknowledgment of having received a specified amount of money or goods.'

21. Transcendentalists were in favor of the conservative Protestant scrutiny practiced by publicists nationwide.

22. Well into the middle of the 19th century boys and girls alike were protected from sexually frank classics written in Greek and Latin.

23. He had seen his people slaughtered, or driven from their homes and hunting-grounds, into shameful exile; his wife had died in captivity, and his children lived in servile dependence in the house of his enemies. The author of this work wanted to raise awareness of women's part in US history.

24. In general, before 1830 American painting was less obviously imitative of European styles than was American literature.

25. The poetry of T.S.Eliot is an example of Modernism.