How does the first paragraph of The Dark Game best support the central idea that the Civil War was a long war? 0 It shares the detail that the war lasted four years.
0 It states what people believed about the war at the time.
0 It tells how many soldiers actually died in the war.
0 It gives an example of a battle that lasted almost two days.​

Why is it good idea to outline answers to essay questions if you run out of time during a test?

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

The attitude the speaker in this poem holds toward himself can best be described as