Read the excerpt below from zlata’s diary by zlata filipovic and answer the question that follows.

the new sections of town—dobrinja, mojmilo, vojnicko polje—are being badly shelled. everything is being destroyed, burned, the people are in shelters. here in the middle of town, where we live, it’s different. it’s quiet. people go out. it was a nice warm spring day today. we went out too. vaso miškin street was full of people, children. it looked like a peace march. people came out to be together, they don’t want war. they want to live and enjoy themselves the way they used to. that’s only natural, isn’t it? who likes or wants war, when it’s the worst thing in the world?

i keep thinking about the march i joined today. it’s bigger and stronger than war. that’s why it will win. the people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. war is something inhuman.

how does filipovic portray people’s reaction to war?

a. they are utterly destroyed by war.
b. they ignore the presence of war.
c. they are not willing to fight for peace.
d. they are resilient to war.

1. drag the central argument paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart. argument claims america may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any european country. america may have flourished under britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future. america will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in europe. the american colonies will no longer flourish when britain makes war against them. britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

2.select the sentence in this passage that can be classified as a false statement.

although few humans per year are attacked by polar bears, any individual attack can be terrifying and even fatal. the warming of arctic regions has allowed the intrusion of humans into the polar bears’ habitat, increasing the danger of harmful contacts. remaining alert and using precautions can humans avoid a negative encounter with a polar bear. traveling together and staying close to the group can humans avoid bear attacks. certain weapons, including nonlethal ones such as pepper spray, are effective against polar bears. once a bear has decided to attack, however, nothing can be done.

3.select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim.

the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states. more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives. the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside. the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals. they all should have asked for better care. william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care. if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civil war, they have no understanding of the war.

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.