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The answer is challenging and taxing because arduous means when something is hard and tiring and the excerpt provides clear detail why that's the answer

The re-election of the president abraham lincoln.

Ayoung lady whom i'll call anonymous lived in west berlin and she said there's a thing going on there called the berlin airlift.the russians are trying to take over. this is not a good thing she says because the russians are communist and in a communist society. you don't have a say in the vovernment and you have much room to stand up for yourself.