The correct answer is: Willingness to defend the country.
On this excerpt, Roosevelt says that Americans need to embrace their patriotism and put it ahead of their pocketbooks, paying a greater amount of money in taxes in order to pay for a defense program, which ultimately means that they will be defending the country if they support this taxation.
Tone helps develop theme by reinforcing the general message of the work through diction and atmosphere
Explanation:
The answer or the best option for the question is A. Or B