Read the excerpt from the dark game.
as montgomery and de grey slowly made their way through the message, they noticed more and more oddities. for example, 97556 appeared near the end of the message; the 9 family indicated important names that were not used very often in messages. we can imagine their shock when they realized that 97556 stood for zimmermann. that single name fired the men with excitement as they began working on the message from the beginning.
which statement best explains how the evidence of this excerpt leads to the inference that the men had intercepted a very important message?
the inference is supported by the fact that the men had to work very slowly to decipher the complicated message.
the inference is supported by the complicated codes that were used by the germans to convey their messages across the atlantic during the war.
the inference is supported by the fact that two men were involved in the deciphering of the message.
the inference is supported by the excitement the men feel when they discover that the message was sent by zimmermann, the german foreign secretary.

Chicago by carl sandburg hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; stormy, husky, brawling, city of the big shoulders: they tell me you are wicked and i believe them, for i have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. and they tell me you are crooked and i yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. and they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: on the faces of women and children i have seen the marks of wanton hunger. and having answered so i turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and i give them back the sneer and say to them: come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, bareheaded, shoveling, wrecking, planning, building, breaking, rebuilding, under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, laughing! laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and freight handler to the nation. which type of figurative language does the poet use most often in "chicago"? a. rhyme b. simile c. metaphor d. personification

Write a 250-word essay in which you explain the theme of women’s strength and bravery in the poem.

How do sotomayor's descriptions of her family most likelyaffect readers?