Read the following passage to answer questions my father worked with a horse-plough, his shoulders globed like a full sail strung between the shafts and the furrow. the horse strained at his clicking tongue. an expert. he would set the wing and fit the bright steel-pointed sock. the sod rolled over without breaking. at the headrig, with a single pluck of reins, the sweating team turned round and back into the land. his eye narrowed and angled at the ground, mapping the furrow exactly. i stumbled in his hob-nailed wake, fell sometimes on the polished sod; sometimes he rode me on his back dipping and rising to his plod. i wanted to grow up and plough, to close one eye, stiffen my arm. all i ever did was follow in his broad shadow round the farm. i was a nuisance, tripping, falling, yapping always. but today it is my father who keeps stumbling behind me, and will not go away. 1. the simile "his shoulders globed like a full sail strung" most strongly suggests that guiding the plough required a. strength b. patience c. knowledge d. concentration 2. that the father is "an expert" is best indicated by the quotation a. "the horses strained at his clicking tongue" b. "and fit the bright-steel-pointed sock" c. "narrowed and angled at the ground" d. "mapping the furrow exactly"

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explanation:

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)