What is the relationship among the bachelor, the aunt, and the three children in "the story teller"?
a. he is the children's uncle and the aunt's brother-in-law.
b. he is engaged to marry the aunt but has never met the children before.
c. he is someone the other characters see on the train all the time but do not know well.
d. he is a complete stranger to the other characters.

D. He is a complete stranger to the other characters.

Explanation:

In "The Storyteller," by Hector Hugh Munro, the bachelor is a passenger in the same carriage on the train the aunt and the children are traveling. Thus, after the aunt tells a boring story to entertain the children, the bachelor gives an account of a "horribly good" girl called Bertha, which has an unexpected ending.

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)