PART II: Read the following paragraph. Underline any run-on sentences, and label them as either run-ons or comma splices.
Then mark the sentence with the proper punctuation or conjunction.

Hundreds of thousands of runners compete in marathons every year. Marathons are 26.2 mile
races that test a runner's strength, marathons also test a runner's endurance and athletic mindset.
Modern marathons were inspired by the legend of Greek runner Pheidippides. The story goes
that Pheidippides ran about 25 miles from the town of Marathon, Greece, to Athens in 490 BCE
he was running to tell the Athenians that the Greeks had defeated the Persians in battle. When
Pierre de Coubertin founded the modern Olympics in Athens 1896, he set the first marathon
course to run from Marathon Bridge to the Olympic Stadium. This was a distance of about 24.8
miles. Marathons varied in length over the next few years, the 1908 Olympics were held in
London. The marathon couose ran between Windsor Castle and White City Stadium, a distance of
26 miles. However, the organizers wanted the race to end in front of the royal family's seats inside
the stadium to do this they added 2 miles to the race. Eventually, 26.2 miles became the set
distance for all marathons.

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.