Read the following excerpt. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, but I must mourn. To drag a man in
shackles into the grand, illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous
anthems, is inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
What inference can be made from this excerpt?
Celebrating freedom is absurd in a country with slavery.
The Fourth of July is an important national holiday for most people.
Celebrating freedom for all will be possible once slavery is ended.
The Fourth of July acknowledges the admirable ideas of the U. S.

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia