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Which poet was a fan of Walt Whitman and paid homage to his style in such poems as “I, Too,” which riffs on a Whitman line, “I sing America”?

One of the men in the dinghy in “The Open Boat” does not survive to get to shore.  Which one?

In which poem is the proverb, “Good fences make good neighbors”?

What is the name of the husband in “Sweat”?

In a William Carlos Williams poem, the speaker watches the title character as he passes by in his car. He notes that his tires are crushing the dried leaves and compares her to one of the leaves.  Who is the title character, who is doing business with the fish man and the ice man?

In “To Build a Fire,” which character “knew that it was not good to walk abroad in such fearful cold” but was rather “the time to lie snug in a hole in the snow”?

What Harlem Renaissance writer, later a nurse and librarian, wrote two novels:  Passing and Quicksand?

Which short story features a washerwoman, her cheating husband, and a ginormous six-foot rattlesnake?

What poet lived and worked in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in Tor House and its adjoining stone tower (which he built by himself)?

Near what holiday do we find the speaker in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”?