Read this excerpt from Marian Anderson’s “Gifts of Speech.” Thousands of women are at work in arsenals on all kinds of ammunition, bullets, shells, and bombs. Thousands of women are making war instruments and electrical equipment. Thousands are helping to produce tanks, . . .

What is Anderson’s most likely reason for repeating the phrase “thousands of women” in this excerpt?

to emphasize that she is talking about women in her speech
to persuade women listeners to join the work force
to offer statistics on how many women are building bombs
to convince listeners that women are very capable workers

How does the mother defend her child to the old duck

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,

What is the team of the passage dreams