Read the excerpt from act 2 of a doll's house.
mrs. linde: [goes on sewing. a short silence] does doctor rank come here everyday?
nora: everyday regularly. he is torvald's most intimate friend, and a great friend of mine too. he is just like one of the family.
mrs. linde: but tell me this—is he perfectly sincere? i mean, isn't he the kind of man that is very anxious to make himself agreeable?
nora: not in the least. what makes you think that?
mrs. linde: when you introduced him to me yesterday, he declared he had often heard my name mentioned in this house; but afterwards i noticed that your husband hadn't the slightest idea who i was. so how could doctor rank—?
nora: that is quite right, christine. torvald is so absurdly fond of me that he wants me absolutely to himself, as he says. at first he used to seem almost jealous if i mentioned any of the dear folk at home, so naturally i gave up doing so. but i often talk about such things with doctor rank, because he likes hearing about them.
mrs. linde: listen to me, nora. you are still very like a child in many things, and i am older than you in many ways and have a little more experience. let me tell you this—you ought to make an end of it with doctor rank.
how does the conversation between mrs. linde and nora affect the plot?
it has no impact, because doctor rank is a minor character in the plot and is not involved with nora.
it has little impact, because nora and doctor rank only interact with each other in one scene.
it has an important impact, because nora decides that she should leave helmer for the doctor.
it has a major impact, because it hints at the doctor's feelings for nora and her attempt at manipulation.

It has a major impact, because it hints at the doctor's feelings for Nora and her attempt at manipulation.

Explanation:

Nora and Kristine have not seen each other for years; the meeting serves as a summary of their past lives and provides background information to further understand the characters.  Kristine is now a widow who has come to Torvald to obtain employment; she learns that Nora is secretly in debt in effort to pay for her husband's medical treatment in Italy to save his life.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)