In Poe’s short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” the narrator pretends to be concerned about Fortunato’s health as he leads him deeper into the catacombs.

Washington Irving made short fiction popular; his work, The Sketch Book, which contains “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleep Hollow” has been identified as the starting point for this literary form.

When the main character of “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” laughs at the end of Hawthorne’s short story, what does this signify?

The main character in Hawthorne’s short story, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” hoped that his kinsman would serve as a benefactor for him.  Similarly,  a young Benjamin Franklin hoped that ________________ would help him make his way in the world.

This Massachusetts Bay poet grappled with being both Puritan and human in her poems.  She describes an author’s relationship with her writing in “The Author to Her Book.”

This Italian-born explorer sailed west to find a route to Asia and instead “discovered” a New World.  Regarding his “discovery,” in his “Letter to Luis de Santangel” he wrote, “Espanola is a marvel.” 

True or False? Vikings established a settlement on the northern tip of Newfoundland about 500 years before Columbus landed on Guanahani/San Salvador.

True or False? Both Christopher Columbus and John Smith were seeking fame.

Identify the work in which the following quote appears:  “The Breaking into this Money of Vernon’s was one of the first great Errata of my Life.”

Both The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano and the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass are examples of what literary genre?