Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Complete the sentences with the correct punctuation.

Natasha was especially interested in dinosaurs; however, Jorge wanted to check out the huge collection of precious gems. Natasha gazed into a replica of a cooking fire and began to imagine a crying baby, the persistent click of stone on stone involved in making scraping tools, and the thunderous cry of a mastodon.

Choices:

sounds:
sounds,
sounds;

B). sounds:

Explanation:

The correct punctuation mark with the word 'sound' would be a colon(:) to fill the given sentence correctly. A colon(:) is primarily employed to introduce a list of items, an explanation, an example, or a quotation. Since the word 'sound' introduces the list of different sounds(of a crying baby...the thunderous cry of a mastodon), a colon would be appropriate and grammatically correct to be used. In the previous sentence, 'dinosaurs' follows a 'semicolon' to mark the pause between the two main clauses. Thus, option B is the correct answer.

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)