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Name the character: This character muses on the naturalistic view of the absurdity of the human condition. Nature is completely indifferent to the existence of human beings, who have no importance in the universe as this character recognizes when he faces drowning in the Atlantic Ocean.

Name the title for the quote: “The South stands before the clean equities of the issue. It is no longer whether constitutional amendments, but whether the eternal principles of justice, are violated. And the answer must—it shall come from the South. And it shall be practical. It will not cost much. . . . The answer is coming. . . .I take upon me to say again here, that there is a moral and intellectual intelligence there which is not going to be much longer beguiled out of its moral right of way by questions of political punctilio, but will seek that plane of universal justice and equality which it is every people’s duty before Go to see, not along the line of politics,–God forbid!—but across it and across it and across it as many times as it may lie across the path, until the whole people of every once slaveholding State can stand up as one man, saying, “Is the freedman a free man?” and the whole world shall answer, ‘Yes.’”

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Identify the author: This well-known American poet is read beginning in elementary school. He is often thought of as an easy poet because his poems seem accessible. Often using scenes from nature, he said that he was not a nature poet because he had no poems that did not have human concerns. It is ironic that he is considered easy to read on the surface because his work has deep insight into profound issues of human existence—death, aging, decision-making, separation from fellow human beings. He frequently uses autumn and winter in his poetry.

Name the title where the following are found: a small boat, a life-saving station in the distance, high waves on the ocean, one oar

Name the speaker: “I know how sincere you are, and how—I wish I had your undoubting spirit! I’ll think it over; I’d like to believe as you do. But I don’t, now; I don’t, indeed. It isn’t this war alone; though this seems peculiarly wanton and needless; but it’s every war–so stupid; it makes me sick. Why shouldn’t this thing have been settled reasonably?”

Identify the title for the quote: My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln        went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy        bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

Name the speaker: My Brothers and my Friends who are before me today: God Almighty has made us all, and He is here to hear what I have to say to you today. The Great Spirit made us both. He gave us lands and He gave you lands. You came here and we received you as brothers. When the Almighty made you, He made you all white and clothed you. When he made us He made us with red skins and poor. When you first came we were very many and you were few. Now you are many and we are few.  . . .

His wife believing he has been killed in a train accident gets to celebrate in her newfound freedom from the marriage for one hour before he walks in the door very much alive causing her to die from the grief of realizing she is still trapped in the marriage she thought she had escaped.

Who is the speaker?   “My father was a justice of the peace, and I suppose he possessed the power of life and death over all men, and could hang anybody that offended him. This was distinction enough for me as a general thing; but the desire to be a steamboatman kept intruding, nevertheless.”