Question 1
The book's excerpt from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi describes
A) life on a cotton plantation in the American South.
B) the first American railroads.
C) the American Civil War's impact on those living along the Mississippi.
D) the impact of steamboats on a town located on the Mississippi.
E) political struggles in small town America during the nineteenth century.
Question 2
Sputnik was
A) a less radical arm of the Soviet Communist Party.
B) the first satellite to orbit earth, launched by the Soviets.
C) an American movement calling for the end of the nuclear arms race.
D) Khrushchev's policy for governmental reform.
E) None of these are correct.