At the end of “The Birth-Mark,”

John Wilkes Booth’s plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln was unsuccessful.

Uncle Tom says that he would rather be a slave than . . .

What is a chambered nautilus?

Frederick Douglass’s most famous work is . . .

In “The Purloined Letter,” what does the term “purloined” mean?

Romanticism . . . 

Walt Whitman wrote about such common subjects as grass, crowds, and man’s lusty nature.

Which poet came from well-off family, studied medicine in Paris, was a descendant of Anne Bradstreet, served as the dean of Harvard Medical School, and had a father who was a minister?

“Song of Myself” is a brief poem, but its ten lines contain very powerful language.