1.
which of the following best describes a central idea of the text?
[ri.2]
a. experiments reveal that people's behavior is greatly influenced by their desire to
conform
the nazi's used behavioral experiments to trick german citizens into following
the laws that most recognized as immoral.
an overwhelming desire to fit in encourages people to display bizarre behavior
at restaurants.
people are unable to resist the desire to follow the crowd because it is part of
human psychology,
d.

D, people are unable to resist the desire to follow the crowd because it is part of human psychology

Explanation: I believe this is the correct answer not only by using process of elimination but by logical sense. Automatically, choices b and c cancel out because they are not main or central ideas, just examples or statements made in the passage. So we’re left with a and d. When you think about it, d makes more sense than a because a talks about experiments. Sure, the whole passage has to do with experiments, but it is not the message trying to be said. D would therefore be the correct answer.

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)