2. Lines 6–13: Infer when Dexter prefers to be on the golf course. What evidence
supports your inference?

In the winters, Dexter compares colors fluttering in the summer with desolated sandboxes in the winters showing that he feels sadness in thw winter.

Explanation:

There are certain proves and evidences which show that Dexter likes to be on the golf course or not because he says that when he is at the golf course during the time of winters, he feels there is melancholy, there is sadness in the atmosphere.

There is comparison of "gay colors which are fluttering in the winters" with the sandboxes in the winter which are desolated show that there is sadness in the atmosphere in the winters.

the answer is: the start of world war i, and russia’s hopes of benefiting from it

during world war i russian joined due to in their current crisis they were being supported by france and the war was already declared to them by germany, they needed to maintain their political goal and leadership role in the balkans, and is the same feeling that this excerpt evoke the eager of maintain the land value.