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Identify the title: My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me. My mother and I were separated when I was but just an infant—before I knew her as my mother. It is a common custom . . .

Of the two available options, what is the best/preferred method for taking a proctored exam if you have slow/unreliable internet at home.

Montresor ironically tells this to the servants to be sure they will be gone when he returns with Fortunato.

Identify the author: My slave narrative was published the year the Civil War started. Of the few narratives written by slaves, mine was unique in showing the plight of the enslaved women. I was able to escape slavery and hide for years to be close to my children. I wrote what I endured from the jealousy of the mistress of the house as well as the actions of the husband.

Identify the author: The first American poet to achieve general recognition and to appreciate nature for its own sake. Mostly a moralist using nature to teach philosophical lessons. He idealized nature. He was acquainted with the major Hudson River School of Painting, especially Thomas Cole.

I understand that I cannot take a proctored exam online using a chromebook.

Identify the speaker: “Why do you tremble at me alone!…Tremble also at each other! Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed and fled, only for my black veil! . . .I look around me, and lo! on every visage a Black Veil.”

I have read through the remote proctoring rules and understand the penalty for breaking any rule is a zero on the exam.

Identify the title: ”I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. The felon’s home in a penitentiary is preferable. He may repent, and turn from the error of his ways, and so find peace; but it is not so with a favorite slave. She is not allowed to have any pride of character. It is deemed a crime in her to wish to be virtuous.”

Identify the title of the story where the following is found: a famous wine kept in an underground vault