Part a: as it is used in paragraph 1, the phrase "closing the slightest avenue" means:
a. to close or block off a street
b. putting an end to slavery once and for all
c. to prevent slaves from using existing routes of escape
d. to make slave-owners more aware of the efforts to free slaves :

B. Putting an end to slavery once and for all.

Explanation:

The text that the question is based off is the memoir "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass", Chapter XI  Part I.

"I would allow myself to suffer under the greatest imputations which evil-minded men might suggest, rather than exculpate myself, and thereby run the hazard of closing the slightest avenue by which a brother slave might clear himself of the chains and fetters of slavery."

The phrase "closing the slightest avenue" in relation to the sentence it is on could refer more to the ending of slavery and that too, not temporary but more on the permanent scale. Considering he was talking about being a "hazard [for] a brother slave" clearing himself, the narrator could be referring to the idea of putting an end to slavery altogether.

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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explanation: