The writings of Edgar Allan Poe were
A. mostly ignored during his lifetime.
B. largely focused on southern society.
C. primarily sad and macabre.
D. completely ignored in Europe after his death.
E. acclaimed by many American writers in his time.
C
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With the development of mass transportation in the later nineteenth century in large European cities
a. workers tended to remain in the city center, while the wealthy moved into the outskirts. b. new working class neighborhoods began to ring many cities. c. city centers became strictly business districts as residents left for the suburbs. d. the possibilities for worker insurrection were improved. e. the quality of urban life actually deteriorated.
Annexationists in Hawai'i plotted the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian government for which of the following reasons?
a. To avoid paying the new American tariff on Hawaiian sugar imported into the United States b. To provoke a war between the United States and Japan c. To place Queen Liliuokalani in power d. To keep more Chinese and Japanese from migrating to Hawai'i
African American activism contributed to social progress for other ethnicities because other ethnic groups __________.
a. were inspired by African American activism and launched their own protests b. had little success in making social change, since the country was weary of protests for racial justice c. were unimpressed with the strategies of African American activists and tried to enact social change in other ways d. were resentful of African American successes because the social changes of the sixties affected only African Americans
By the end of the eleventh century C.E., Buddhism was
a. becoming less popular in India. b. being used by more Indian rulers to justify their rule. c. developing more monasteries throughout India. d. adopting the traditions of blood sacrifice to its practice in India.