QUIZ TIME HELP ME PLZ Part A
According to the selection from Life on the Mississippi, how do the people of Hannibal usually respond to the arrival of a packet boat?

A. tired acceptance
B. brief annoyance
C. great excitement
D. shock and anger
Part B
Which of the following quotations from Life on the Mississippi best illustrates the answer to Part A?

A. Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the day was a dead and empty thing.
B. [T]wo or three wood flats at the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mississippi …
C. She is long and sharp and trim and pretty; she has two tall, fancy-topped chimneys, with a gilded device of some kind swung between them…
D. Then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore … and such a yelling and cursing.…

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)

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