Study the timeline of Russian history, and read the passage from chapter 1 of Animal Farm. A timeline of Russian history from 1890 to 1940. Tsar Nicholas the second is crowned in 1894, World War One begins in 1914, agriculture is collectivized by the Communist Party in 1928, and between 6 and 8 million people die during the Soviet famine from 1932 to 1933.

"But is this simply part of the order of Nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it? No, comrades, a thousand times no! The soil of England is fertile, its climate is good, it is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously greater number of animals than now inhabit it. This single farm of ours would support a dozen horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep—and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are now almost beyond our imagining."

Which event in Russian history does the sentiment of this passage most point to?

the crowning of Nicholas II, and the bourgeois’ enjoyment of luxuries
the start of World War I, and Russia’s hopes of benefitting from it
the beginning of collectivization, and the idea that all should share in wealth
the Soviet famine, in which so many people died due to poorly planned policies

What evidence in the excerpt supports schwartz claim? select three options

Pl true or false: a hyphen can indicate that a word has been split up at the end of a line and continues onto the next line.

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next