"Most children brought up in Brooklyn before the First World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the day children went around “ragamuffin” or “slamming gates,” wearing costumes topped off by a penny mask." This evokes a sense of time and place because of the diction it uses. It tells us that it was before WW1 on Thanksgiving.
Answer:
I think the first one hope it helps you
The correct answers should be
<span>created memorable characters
</span><span>contributed important social and political criticism
</span><span>developed the art of the storyteller
His stories were not sentimental at all and were mostly satirical and criticized the period. They spoke of poverty and poor neighborhoods and the spirit of racism that was common in the era. He mostly wrote about rural American neighborhoods in an objective manner which was common in the US at the time. His memorable characters are Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, who are a common part of most school syllabi.</span>
The first gap is best filled with "resembled" (Sebastian comments here that many people believed that his sister was similar to him in the looks)
The second gap is "remembrance" - he means here that he cries after her (the more refers to more salt water, that is his tears)