Read the excerpt from act 3 of a doll's house. helmer: how unreasonable and how ungrateful you are, nora! have you not been happy here? nora: no, i have never been happy. i thought i was, but it has never really been so. helmer: not—not happy! nora: no, only merry. and you have always been so kind to me. but our home has been nothing but a playroom. i have been your doll-wife, just as at home i was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls. i thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when i played with them. that is what our marriage has been, torvald. what prediction does the text best support? helmer is going to change how he treats nora. helmer is going to leave nora and the children. nora is going to leave helmer and the children. nora is going to tell helmer to treat her better.

It seems the best answer is that Nora is going to leave Helmer and the children, because she expresses that she has never been happy whilst she has been with them.

In this excerpt from Act 3, of "A Doll's House", the prediction that the text best supports is Nora is going to leave Helmer and the children. After Torvald has threatened Nora that she is not going to be allowed to raise their children they argue about their married life. Nora states that she has never been happy and that she has been treated like a doll, admired and played with. We may predict that Nora needs to be herself, she needs to find herself before anything else.

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)

what are the choices?