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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• The word “prior” is CLOSET meaning to ...............

• According to the passage, the frame buffers mentioned in the third paragraph are used to ........

• The word "fused" in line 2 is closest in meaning to .......

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• How many categories of facial expressions are mentioned?

• Why do people say women produce more than half of the food in Africa?

• It can be inferred from the passage that the eye ___.

• Merlin put wheels under his shoes in order to __________

• When the concept of universal primary education was introduced, education _______.

• What is the passage primarily about?

• What is the best title for the passage?

• The author of this passage is most likely __________________ .

• The writer's father retired early because ..................

• What does the word “it” refer to?

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

• What does the word “they” in paragraph 2 refer to?

• The word "perceive" in bold in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ..............

• Approximately how much of the Earth’s atmosphere is nitrogen?

• What does the word "run" in the last paragraph mean?

• According to the passage, what must the nations of the world do to find a solution?

• Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 1 as resulting from repid ecological change?