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 “exotic" in paragraph two is closest in meaning to ________.

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• Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

• These changes in the Amercan home may ______________

• Education in early times was mostly aimed at _______.

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• The word “haphazard” is closest in meaning to which of the following?

• Pollution in water is noticed .............

• The word "innovative" in line 1 could best be replaced by ...............

• Doctors have tentatively concluded that cell phones may .............

• The word “vary” in paragraph 6 can be best replaced by ___________.

• Why are there white rings on each end of the football?

• According to paragraph 1, which of the following is NOT true?

• Which of the following do music arrangers probably NOT do?

• According to the author, M.L. _______.

• Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

• The best title of the passage could be ______.

• Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

• The word “surreptitiously” is closest in meaning to ...........

• Medical students have to follow a course lasting for ............

• The word cherished in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______________

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

• The word “denotes” in line paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to_______.