<span>Past perfect tense is used in this case. This is due to the fact that the events are not in normal chronological order. This tense is used to differentiate when the events happened and put them back into proper order.</span>
Answer:
1. infamous (a mobster would be considered infamous because he is a bad person, but is well known; such as Al Capone)
2. true
3. opinion
4. I can't answer this because I dont have access to your class notes BUT my guess would be: 1, 2, 4, 5
Explanation:
In 1848, one day a man named James Wilson Marshal was digging until he found something shining, gold! Marshal wasn't even looking for gold. In fact, he was preparing to build a sawmill near a river until he found his new shocking discovery. When the word got out that he found some gold, people headed west hoping to find some gold and get rich. (I only did the top paragraph, do you need the second?)