"the black death, 1348" in paragraph 6, what does moderate mean? a. massive; outrageous b. a person who holds moderate views, as in politics c. to preside over d. to take on a serious mode e. become less extreme some thought that moderate living and the avoidance of all superfluity would preserve them from the epidemic. they formed small communities, living entirely separate from everybody else. they shut themselves up in houses where there were no sick, eating the finest food and drinking the best wine very temperately, avoiding all excess, allowing no news or discussion of death and sickness, and passing the time in music and suchlike pleasures. others thought just the opposite. they thought the sure cure for the plague was to drink and be merry, to go about singing and amusing themselves, satisfying every appetite they could, laughing and jesting at what happened. they put their words into practice, spent day and night going from tavern to tavern, drinking immoderately, or went into other people's houses, doing only those things which them. this they could easily do because everyone felt doomed and had abandoned his property, so that most houses became common property and any stranger who went in made use of them as if he had owned them. and with all this bestial behaviour, they avoided the sick as much as possible.

The correct answer is option letter E. Taken from “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer (1387), the paragraph 6 is within the section called “GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, THE DECAMERON (1353)”. This section is about stories that narrators tell about their journey to flee from the Black Death. Option letter E is the correct one, since a moderate way of living is reasonable and not extreme. In the very first line, the word “moderate” recalls this meaning, as the narrators thought about having a reasonable and less extreme way of living and avoiding all superfluity in order to escape from the epidemic. In fact, in the following lines the narrators tell how to perform that reasonable way of living. For instance, forming small communities, avoiding all excess, and shutting themselves up in houses. Options letter A, B, C and D do not match the correct meaning of the word “moderate” in this sentence.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

i feel like it is actually b.