Peyton Farquhar was a we’ll do planter of an old and highly respected Alabama family. Being a slave owner, and like other slave owners, a politician, he was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the southern cause. Circumferences of an imperious nature which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with the gallant army that had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth and he chafed under the inglorious restraint longing for the release of his energies, the larger life of the solider, the opportunity for distinction. That opportunity, he felt, would come, as it comes to all in war time. Meanwhile he did what he could. No service was too humble for him to perform in aid of the south, no adventure too perilous for him to undertake if consistent with the character of a civilian who was at heart a soldier and who in good faith and without too much qualification assented to at least a part of the frankly villainous dictum that all is fair in love and war 1. Which historical event is present in passage 1?

A) American revolution

B) French Indian war

C) civil war

D) industrial revolution

2. What evidence from passage 1 supports the historical event you selected in the previous question?

A) “Peyton Farquhar was a well-to-do planter of an old and highly respected Alabama family”

B) “he was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause”

C) “that opportunity, he felt, would come, as it comes to all in war time”

D) “circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with the gallant army”