3. Read these lines and answer the questions that follow. Come, I will make the continent indissoluble,
i. To whom does the speaker say this?
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The speaker is saying this to America.

Explanation:

The given line is taken from the poem "For You O Democracy" by Walt Whitman. The poet in this poem is making promises to his nation, America, for making it a better nation, better citizens, etc.

In the given line, the speaker is talking to America, his nation. He is making a promise to his nation of making it an indissoluble continent.

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .