The rapid transcontinentat settlement and these new urban industrial circumstances of the last half of the 19th century were accompanied by the development of national literature of great abundance and variety. New themes, new forms, new subjects, new regions, new authors, new audiences all emerged in the literature of this half century.

   As a result, at the onset of World War I, the spirit and substance of American literature had evolved remarkably, just as its center of production had shifted from Boston to New York in the late 1880s and the sources of its energy to Chicago and the Midwest. No longer was it produced, at least in its popular forms, in the main by solemn, typically moralistic men from New England and the Old South; no longer were polite, well-dressed, grammatically correct, middle-class young people the only central characters in its narratives; no longer were these narratives to be set in exotic places and remote times; no longer, indeed, were fiction, poetry, drama, and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression; no longer, finally, was literature read primarily by young, middle class women.

   In sum, American literature in these years fulfilled in considerable measure the condition Walt Whitman called for in 1867 in describing Leaves of Grass: it treats, he said of his own major work, each state and region as peers "and expands from them, and includes the world ... connecting an American citizen with the citizens of all nations."

The word “evolved” in paragraph two is closest in meaning to ________.

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• The word "pigment" at the end of the first paragraph means________.

• The reason why telecommuting has not become popular is that the employees .............

• The word “reduce” in paragraph 1 most nearly means .................

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• Which statement would the author probably agree with?

• The phrase broke out in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning ...............

• What is the author’s main purpose in the first paragraph of to passage?

• Education in early times was mostly aimed at .....

• What does the word "trilogy" in the first paragraph mean?

• This passage would probably be assigned reading in which of the following courses?

• According to the article the Feingold diet is NOT ___________.

• Ancient education generally focused its efforts on _______.

• According to the passage, which type of memory is the shortest?

• The word “pseudonym” in the passage refers to ___________.

• According to the passage, great horned owls ..............

• According to the passage, what group of people will probably first from the use of the microprocessor?

• Education in early times was mostly aimed at _______.

• The author mentions that all of the following are aware of quantities in some ways EXCEPT .............

• The changes in the American home mentioned in this passage may ...............

• In what year did Melville’s book about his experiences as a cabin boy appear?

• It can be inferred from paragraph 4 that__________.