Read the excerpt from "the story of a warrior queen." at last the roman leader was so downcast with his many defeats that he went himself to the british camp, bearing in his hand a green branch as a sign of peace. when boadicea was told that an ambassador from the romans wished to speak to her, she replied proudly, "my sword alone shall speak to the romans." and when the roman leader asked for peace, she answered, "you shall have peace, peace, but no submission. a british heart will choose death rather than lose liberty. there can be peace only if you promise to leave the country." which action best supports the idea that boadicea is a warrior? the roman leader asks for peace with the britons. boadicea evokes pity by choosing death. the roman leader is downcast and does not want to fight. boadicea tells the roman leader that she will speak with her sword.

Which excerpt from the war of the worldseffectively reveals how the author relates the climax of the narrative through the narrator's thoughts? the war of the worldsall this had happened with such swiftness that i had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. had that death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. but it passed and spared me, and left the night about me suddenly dark and unfamiliar.and then, with a renewed horror, i saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit. it was the head of the shopman who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun.at that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the thing had come from the planet mars, but i judged it improbable that it contained any living creature. i thought the unscrewing might be automatic.my mind ran fancifully on the possibilities of its containing manuscript, on the difficulties in translation that might arise, whether we should find coins and models in it, and so forth. yet it was a little too large for assurance on this idea. i felt an impatience to see it opened.