Text-dependent questions
for the following questions, choose the best answer or respond in complete sentences.
directions: for the following questions, choose
1.
which of the following best states a theme from the story?
your status doesn't define you
beauty isn't everything
c. it's the thought that counts
unselfish love is the greatest of all gifts
b.
2.
how does the first paragraph develop the plot of the story?
a. it illustrates how rude della is
it illustrates how independent della is
it illustrates how expensive it is to live in london
it illustrates how concerned with money della is
3.
irony is when something unexpected happens in the story. explain how the ending of "the
gift of the magi" is ironic.

misty passage from the question

i believe the correct answer is a

the third paragraph is your answer,

"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "