Read the passage:
one cannot easily realize what a tremendous thing it is to know every trivial detail of twelve
hundred miles of river and know it with absolute exactness. if you will take the longest street in
new york and travel up and down it, conning its features patiently until you know every house and
window and lamppost and big and little sign by heart, and know them so accurately that you can
instantly name the one you are abreast of when you are set down at random in that street in the middle of an inky black night, you will then have a tolerable notion of the amount and the
exactness of a pilot's knowledge who carries the mississippi river in his head.

which description develops the experience of learning to navigate the mississippi river.

a) you will then have a tolerable notion of the amount and the exactness of a pilot's
knowledge who carries the mississippi river in his head.

b) when you are set down at random in that street in the middle of an inky black night.

c) one cannot easily realize what a tremendous thing it is to know every trivial detail of twelve hundred miles of river.

d)if you will take the longest street in new york and travel up and down it, conning its
features patiently until you know every house and window and lamppost and big and little sign by heart.

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)

the mending wall was written by robert frost