Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, representative of the American Renaissance of the 1840s, is significant in that it
SAT · US History · previous-year question
- A.changed the attitude of the people of the United States toward the Native Americans.
- B.portrayed life in a utopian community.
- C.was an antislavery novel that galvanized Northern opinion against the Fugitive Slave Law.
- D.opposed the narrow Puritan point of view of 17th-century New England.
- E.used a predominately American occupation to explore man's struggles with the natural world and good and evil.
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