What does hale want to achieve by asking john proctor to recite the 10 commandments? he wanted to make sure he understood the one about adultery. as a church rule, he wanted to make sure he had them memorized. if he could recite them, he was faithful to god; if he couldn't he was likely to be involved in witchcraft. all of the above

What Hale wants to achieve by asking John Proctor to recite the 10 Commandments is that If he could recite them, he was faithful to God; if he couldn't he was likely to be involved in witchcraft.

Explanation:

There have been some investigations about the topic of witchcraft going on around and the name of Mrs. Proctor came up, therefore Reverend Hale asks John Proctor to recite the Ten Commandments as a test of his faith since he doesn't go to church very often and he speaks publicly about his dislike of Reverend Parris and many church doctrines.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.

the answer should be:

the intervention of the supernatural gives gilgamesh hope that he will defeat humbaba.