1. Which choice best tells the main idea of the excerpt?
a. The speaker decides he must avenge
his parents.
b. The speaker announces that he will no longer bother trying to do what he thinks is the
right thing.
c.
The speaker grieves for those who have died and for many more who will die in the
near future.
d. The speaker compares the land to an "egg-shell," which suggests that the army is about
to go to war for land that is not important or worth fighting for.