30 Points 13.And, when I could no longer look,
14.I blest his Name that gave and took,
15.That layd my goods now in the dust:
16.Yea so it was, and so 'twas just.
17.It was his own: it was not mine;
18.Far be it that I should repine.

Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan woman who lived in America during the Colonial Time Period. Based upon her comments in lines 13-18, what conclusion can you draw about Bradstreet's religious beliefs?

A) Bradstreet believes her house has burned because she is being punished by God.
B) Bradstreet believes that God will bless her and bring her money to rebuild her house.
C) Bradstreet believes that God burned her house to teach her to be more devoted to Him.
D) Bradstreet believes that God has the power to give worldy possessions and take them away.

Read this passage from “the fall of the house of usher.” which element of gothic literature is not obvious in this passage? as if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. it was the work of the rushing gust—but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady madeline of usher. there was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. for a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold—then, with a low moaning cry, fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and in her violent and now final death agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse, and a victim to the terrors he had anticipated. bleak or remote settings supernatural or otherworldly elements macabre or violent incidents strong language full of dangerous meaning