How do the setting and period of the story "The Devil and Tom
Walker" help make the story work?
1.The story is set in New England in the eighteenth century, a time when
people there were particularly superstitious about evil.
2.The story is set in Europe in the sixteenth century, a time when people
there were very religious.
3.The story is set in the 1700s in the dense forests of Appalachia, a
region where many Indian massacres had occurred.
4.The story is set in Boston after the Revolutionary War at a time when
the new country of America was prospering.
