USA HISTORY

MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

ELECTION OF 1848 AND THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
At last ____
A
At last, James Marshall was a builder.
B
At last, Amy was a baker.
C
At last, Amy’s father was rich.
D
At last, Amy’s father was back from the hills.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Quoting his father, Hallam Tennyson writes: “‘Locksley Hall” is an imaginary place […] and the hero is imaginary’.

Detailed explanation-2: -His poem “Locksley Hall” (1842) expresses his ambivalence about technology and scientific progress. There the speaker feels tempted to abandon modern civilization and return to a savage life in the jungle. In the end, he chooses to live a civilized, modern life and enthusiastically endorses technology.

Detailed explanation-3: -Locksley Hall, poem in trochaic metre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in the collection Poems (1842). The speaker of this dramatic monologue declaims against marriages made for material gain and worldly prestige. The speaker revisits Locksley Hall, his childhood home, where he and his cousin Amy had fallen in love.

Detailed explanation-4: -Is it autobiography or biography? The autobiographical narrative, “Fish Cheeks, ” by Amy Tan, is about a fourteen-year-old girl named Amy who lives in America. The problem Amy experiences is that she is ashamed of her family.

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