Which excerpt from "Math Curse" best helps the reader predict the narrator's main conflict? "I look in my closet, and the problems get worse: I have 1 white shirt, 3 blue shirts, 3 striped shirts, and that ugly plaid shirt my Uncle Zeno sent me."
"ON MONDAY in Math class, Mrs. Fibonacci says, "YOU KNOW, you can think of almost everything as a math problem."
"Each pizza is cut into 8 equal slices. Each pie is cut into 6 equal slices. And you know what that means: fractions."
"THE WHOLE morning is one problem after another. There are 24 kids in my class." Which one is the answer?

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)

a term is used to describe a sudden revelation in a short story is "showing forth".