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  Author described: My fellow Separatists and I had gone to seek religious freedom in Holland to escape the situation in England. I wrote for the glory of God after coming to the New World from Holland. Our ship was blown off course, and we were taken north to what is now Cape Cod where we founded Plymouth colony.  

To whom is Montresor speaking in “Cask of Amontillado”?

Identify the title where the following can be found: a piece of black crepe worn over the face blocking it from view

Identify the reason: Why will Elizabeth not marry Father Hooper?.

  Identify: The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established here in Virginia.

  Identify title of quote: “. . . at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine, and not only that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely conducted to Jamestown, where I found abut eight and thirty miserable poor and sick creatures, to keep possession of all those large territories of Virginia. . .”  

Name the speaker: “I confess, that I do not entirely approve of this constitution at present; but, Sir, I am not sure I shall never approve it; for, having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change my opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought to be right, but found to be otherwise.”    

Identify title of the quote: Look to my little babes, my dear remains.  And if thou love thyself, or loved’st me,  These O protect from stepdame’s injury. And if chance to thine eyes shall bring this verse, With some sad sighs honor my absent hearse; And kiss this paper for thy love’s dear sake, Who with salt tears this last farewell did take.  

Identify the literary trend: This literary trend began in the early 1800s in American literature and painting, a generation after Europeans had use it. The trend often focuses on nature. It can also use the mystical, long ago and far away, the unknown. It stresses the emotional side of human experience rather than the intellectual side of the previous century. Among the great writers of this trend are Poe, Hawthorne,  Melville, and Bryant.

Identify the speaker of the quote: “BROTHERS–The Great Spirit is angry with our enemies; he speaks in thunder, and the earth swallows up villages, and drinks up the Mississippi. The great waters will cover their lowlands; their corn cannot grow; and the Great Spirit will sweep those who escape to the hills from the earth with his terrible breath . . .BROTHERS–We must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other’s battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit; he is for us; he will destroy our enemies, and make all his red children happy.”