Hurry for 75 !
read the excerpt from “mary louise” by edith van dyne.
"it's positively cruel! " pouted jennie allen, one of a group of girls occupying a garden bench in the ample grounds of miss stearne's school for girls, at beverly.
"it's worse than that; it's insulting," declared mable westervelt, her big dark eyes flashing indignantly.
"doesn't it seem to reflect on our characters? " timidly asked dorothy
knerr.
"indeed it does! " asserted sue finley. "but here comes mary louise; let's ask her opinion."
"phoo! mary louise is only a day scholar," said jennie. "the restriction doesn't apply to her at all."
"i'd like to hear what she says, anyhow," remarked dorothy. "mary
louise has a way of untangling things, you know."
"she's rather too officious to suit me," mable westervelt retorted, "and she's younger than any of us. one would think, the way she poses as monitor at this second-rate, run-down boarding school, that mary louise burrows made the world."
"oh, mable! i've never known her to pose at all," said sue. "but, hush; she mustn't overhear us and, besides, if we want her to intercede with miss stearne we must not offend her."
which statement correctly describes the characterization in this excerpt?
a. mary louise is characterized in a negative way through sue finley's words.
b. mary louise is characterized in a positive way through jennie allen's words.
c. mary louise is characterized in a negative way through miss stearne's words.
d. mary louise is characterized in a positive way through dorothy knerr's words.

In which part of this excerpt from the gettysburg address does president abraham lincoln argue that the outcome of the war will depend on the determination and loyalty of northern citizens? four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great battle-field of that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow— this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.