B. reasons why you should vote
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He's reading to try to distract himself from the grief of losing a "rare and radiant maiden" named Lenore. ... Perhaps the gentle knocking on the door causes him to hope that it's Lenore, and he has to tell himself otherwise in order to quell the likely disappointment that reality will bring him.
<span>A series of British laws passed in 1774 that were designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.</span>