2.
PART B: Which TWO quotes from the text best support the answers to Part A?
A. "Pemberton was educated in the best private schools: grew up to be six feet tall,
slender, handsome and a good talker; and, in the opinion of many women, a charmer."
(Paragraph 11)
B. "But at the Academy, Pemberton did no better than Grant, who graduated six years
later than the Philadelphian. Like the Ohioan, Pemberton was a mediocre student who
learned to like whiskey so well he was almost expelled in his senior year." (Paragraph
12)
C. "Grant was so impressed by Pemberton's conduct in the Army that he admiringly wrote
in his memoirs, '(a) more conscientious, honorable man never lived.(Paragraph 13)
D. "Grant's victory did not come easy. His losses were 17,210 killed, wounded, and
missing soldiers, almost 4,000 more than Pemberton's." (Paragraph 34)
E. "But he won the praise of President Lincoln as 'a general that fights,' was put in
command of all Union armies, and in 1868 was elected (and in 1872 reelected) the 18th
President of the United States." (Paragraph 34)
F. "Vilified as a traitor in both South and North, he died in 1881 in Philadelphia."
(Paragraph 36)