SAT US History Practice Question

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, representative of the American Renaissance of the 1840s, is significant in that it

1. A.changed the attitude of the people of the United States toward the Native Americans.
2. B.portrayed life in a utopian community.
3. C.was an antislavery novel that galvanized Northern opinion against the Fugitive Slave Law.
4. D.opposed the narrow Puritan point of view of 17th-century New England.
5. E.used a predominately American occupation to explore man's struggles with the natural world and good and evil.