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About whom was this quote made in a New York Times publication? “Here was a most remarkable woman, one who lived a great life, but lived it so simply and with such limited consideration for herself that the more you study it the more it grows to be perhaps the truest life that an American woman has yet lived.”

According to F. O. Matthiessen, the “Renaisssance” of American Literature was inspired when and by which four authors of which four works? 

The devil in Young Goodman Brown was remarkable for what one thing?

Identify all of the following characteristics which relate to Romanticism. (You must correctly identify all characteristics in order to receive any credit.)

The first American writer to be honored in the poet’s corner in Westminister Abbey was

Washintgon Irving’s work that has been called the world’s most popular short story is

William Cullen Bryant was the first American poet to gain worldwide fame.

Henry David Thoreau’s best-known work is

You are performing CPR on an 80-year-old woman whose cardiac arrest was witnessed by her husband. Several intubation attempts have been unsuccessful, but ventilations with a bag-mask device are producing adequate chest rise. IV access has been obtained and 1 mg of epinephrine has been administered. The cardiac monitor displays a narrow QRS complex rhythm at a rate of 70 beats/min. According to the patient’s husband, she has had numerous episodes of diarrhea over the past 24 hours and has not had much of an appetite. Your next action should be to:

You respond to the scene of an assault, where a 20-year-old man was struck in the chest with a steel pipe. Your assessment reveals that the patient is unresponsive, apneic, and pulseless. The priority is to: