Which detail best supports the idea that Bev had time to take action to save herself and Benji?
A "Most of those houses were empty now. Just me and
Benji, Bev thought." ( Paragraphs 9-10)
B "He held his tennis shoes in one hand, but whatever
he'd gotten into, he'd taken them off too late. They
were caked with gray mud" ( Paragraph 35)
C“The radio warning all those years ago, when Benji was
small, had been wrong. Fifty years, they'd said." (
Paragraph 52)
D "And in the quiet then they could hear it: the water, its
thousand narrow fingers, creeping through the dead
lawns and over the bleached asphalt." ( Paragraph 74)

A

Explanation:

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)