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  Identify the year: The first permanent English colony was founded by John Smith in this year. 

Identify the character: This person seeks revenge for a wrong and still relives the scene fifty years later. He did not want to take the life of the man who has insulted his family, but his society’s code of honor demanded action. On his deathbed, he remembers the details of the murder from fifty years ago as if they had just happened.

What should you do if you have a problem during the exam?

What is the realization of the grieving lover in “The Raven” that sends him into an unbearable grief.

Identify: Relationship between Father Hooper and Elizabeth

Identify the author: A member of the first generation of Americans to grow up without thinking of themselves as colonists. Spent much time in Europe, admired past legends, lacked interest in issues of his day. First internationally-known American writer. His sketches and essays were early examples of the short story that American writers would perfect. Two of his stories are much loved and well-known today.

Identify the speaker: “Neither party expected for war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. . . .The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully.”

Identify the title:I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul. . . I am the poet of the woman the same as the manAnd I say it is a great to be a woman as to be a man.And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.

Give the title for the quote:  In the woods, we return to reason and faith. there I feel that nothing can befal me in life, –no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, –my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,–all mean egoism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Identify the title:It is not that a leg is lost,It is not that an arm is maimed,It is not that the fever has racked–Self he has long disclaimed.But all through the Seven Days’ Fight,And deep in the Wilderness grim,And in the field-hospital tent,And Petersburg crater, and dimLean brooding in Libby, there came–Ah heaven!–what truth to him.