AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The Rocky Mountains.
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The Appalachian Mountains.
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The Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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The Sierra Madre Mountains.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A short story set in the Sierra Mountains of northern California in the 1850s; published in 1868. A small group of ne’er-do-wells are exiled from the town of Poker Flat. Attempting to reach the next town, they take shelter together when a snowstorm catches them unprepared.
Detailed explanation-2: -The story takes place in a Californian community known as Poker Flat, near the town of La Porte.
Detailed explanation-3: -ON THE 7TH DECEMBER, 1850. And pulseless and cold, with a derringer by his side and a bullet in his heart, though still calm as in life, beneath the snow lay he who was at once the strongest and yet the weakest of the outcasts of Poker Flat.
Detailed explanation-4: -The outcasts were headed for Sandy Bar, a camp not too far away. But it was high up in the cold Sierra Mountains, and the path was anything but smooth. Around noon, Mother Shipton became so tired she fell off her horse.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Duchess and Piney are left alone in the cabin. As their fire begins to die, they fall asleep in each other’s arms. They are found dead days later by a rescue party, and the party is unable to tell which is the prostitute and which is the innocent.