Select the correct text in the passage.
which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as
possible?
neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the
conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and
astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men
should dare to ask a just god's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not
judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto
the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." if we shall suppose
that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his
appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the
offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him?
fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the
wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash
shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true
and righteous altogether."
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i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.

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)

a. is the correct answer