Plz why did both the north and south mistakenly think that the civil war would be short? a. both sides had large groups of people who opposed the war. b. neither side realized how deeply the other felt about the issues of slavery and states' rights. c. both sides underestimated the economic and military strength of the other.

Read these lines from "o captain! my captain! ". o the bleeding drops of red, where on the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. how does whitman use the extended metaphor to refer to lincoln’s death? a. whitman compares lincoln’s death to what the death for all the soldiers was like. b. whitman compares lincoln’s death to the loss of one of the army generals. c.whitman compares lincoln’s death to the loss of losing a family member in the war. d. whitman compares lincoln’s tragic death to a captain lying dead on the deck of his ship.