Select the correct answer. Read this sentence from the passage.

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations, as with individuals, our interests soundly calculated, will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

What tone does this sentence convey?

A. confident
B. condescending
C. neutral
D. serious

Which of the following sentences requires a colon to be correct? a. in his vacation suitcase, jonathan packed two pairs of pants, four shirts, his swimsuit, and his favorite pajamas. b. when she decided to write a letter, she grabbed her pen, paper, stamps, and address book. c. the new dessert recipe called for equal parts of sugar, cream, peanut butter, and crushed pecans. d. she gathered all of her ingredients to make a smoothie strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and yogurt.