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'; OutString += '
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'; if (WordBox.length > 0){ OutString += WordBox; } OutString += ''; OutString += BuiltCloze; OutString += '
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In 1820, a quote by Sydney Smith appeared in the prestigious Edinburgh Review: " In the four corners of the globe, who reads an '; Text[3]=' book?" Little did Smith know that this same year, '; Text[4]=' would publish a series of essays and tales called '; Text[5]='. It became the first American work widely read on both sides of the Atlantic.

Washington Irving was born in '; Text[6]=' near present-day Wall Street. Irving was the youngest of 11 children and was formally trained to be a '; Text[7]=', but he practiced only briefly. He showed literary promise early in his life. Irving was the first American writer to achieve '; Text[8]=' fame. He was the first American author to write soley for the purpose of '; Text[9]='.

"'; Text[10]='" is Irving\'s best-known story. It is set in the '; Text[11]=' Mountains of New York. It is based on a '; Text[12]=' folktale. It is the first story to have distinctively American '; Text[13]=' and '; Text[14]='. Irving lends credibility to his story by beginning and ending with references to the Catskill Mountains.

Fueling this literary romanticism was a national mood of optimism, a spirit of confidence in the '; Text[15]=', '; Text[16]=' system, and citizenry of the nation. As the US economy moved to '; Text[17]=' place among the nations of the world, its population rapidly expanded with waves of European '; Text[18]=' ('; Text[19]=' million from 1815-1860). As these immigrants spread across the country, they helped to '; Text[20]=', to man the growing '; Text[21]=' centers of the '; Text[22]=', and to push the '; Text[23]=' farther westward. Some of the many '; Text[24]=' advances of the period included the completion of the '; Text[25]='; the opening of the first '; Text[26]='; the invention of the '; Text[27]='; the '; Text[28]='; the instituting of the first '; Text[29]='; and the drilling of the first '; Text[30]='. Writers and speakers across the country spoke of the splendors of the rapidly expanding nation--especially its '; Text[31]=' prosperity and '; Text[32]=' freedom. America\'s possibilities seemed unlimited. '; State = new Array(); function StartUp(){ var i = 0; State.length = 0; for (i=0; i -1){ var TotalChars = GetGapValue(i).length; State[i][3] = (TotalChars-State[i][1])/TotalChars; if (State[i][0] > 0){State[i][3] = State[i][3]/2;} if (State[i][3]<0){State[i][3] = 0;} State[i][4] = 1; } else{ //Otherwise, add zero to the array and increment the hints for this item, as a penalty State[i][1]++; State[i][3] = 0; //then set the flag AllCorrect = 0; } } } //Calculate the total score var TotalScore = 0; for (i=0; i'; } Output += YourScoreIs + ' ' + TotalScore + '%.
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