Two Years Before the Mast, Which Helped to Encourage Westward

question 77

Multiple Choice

Two Years before the Mast, which helped to encourage westward expansion, was written by

• A) Richard Henry Dana.
• B) Mark Twain.
• C) Horace Greeley.
• D) William Walker.
• E) Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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