1. PART A: Which of the following best describes the
author's claim in the text?
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players in Major
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O A Baseball provides boys in the Dominican
Republic with an opportunity they wouldn't
otherwise have to be very successful.
O B The pressures on Dominican Republic baseball
players discourage them from pus ng an
education and leave them at a disadvantage if
they don't succeed in the major leagues.
c Standards in baseball only require academies to
provide Dominican Republic players with a basic
education.
• D While most Dominican Republic baseball players
do make it to the major leagues, they don't have

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)