WILL MARK BRAINLIEST What do the words absolute Despotism mean as they are used in paragraph 2?

Question 12 options:

A. total commitment and determination

B. utter arrogance and wickedness

C. complete and cruel domination

D. excessive hardship and suffering

Question 13 (2 points) Jefferson begins the majority of the paragraphs in the “Declaration of Independence” with the words “He has.” Why is this structure effective in helping Jefferson make his argument?

Question 13 options:

A. It emphasizes the king’s role in inflicting multiple forms of injustice.

B. It contrasts the king’s behavior with that of his deputies.

C. It enables the reader to determine which of the king’s offenses are the most severe.

D. It proposes a clear series of actions to oppose the king’s mistreatment.

Question 14 (2 points) What two things does Phillis Wheatley compare in "An Hymn to the Evening"?

Question 14 options:

A. the lives of slaves and the lives of free people

B. a productive day and a wasted day

C. the human heart and the setting sun

D. the poet's song and a bird's song

Question 15 (2 points) Which quote best expresses the attitudes of many of Olaudah Equiano's countrymen in "Aboard a Slave Ship"?

Question 15 options:

A. “Happily perhaps for myself, I was soon reduced so low here that it was thought necessary to keep me almost always on deck.” (54)

B. “One day, when we had a smooth sea and moderate wind, two of my wearied countrymen who were chained together (I was near them at the time), preferring death to such a life of misery, somehow made through the nettings and jumped into the sea” (54).

C. “The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time, and some of us had been permitted to stay on the deck for the fresh air; but now that the whole ship’s cargo were confined together, it became absolutely pestilential” (53).

Question 16 (2 points) Olaudah Equiano illustrates the horrors of his journey on the slave ship by .

Question 16 options:

A. criticizing the American government

B. appealing to his readers' religious faith

C. arguing against natural law

D. using vivid sensory details

Question 17 (2 points) How does Francis Scott Key convey the "glory" of the American flag?

Question 17 options:

A. He compares the flag to a soldier's courage and patriotism.

B. He uses dark, threatening imagery to describe the flag itself.

C. He summarizes the history and significance of the flag.

D. He builds tension, and then reveals that the flag is still standing.