Answer:
1.) Use the money to improve the zoo.
2.) I would spend some of the $5 million dollars and then put it in my bank account.
Explanation:
A.) lines 6-9
If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch
Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light, —
One if by land, and two if by sea;
I have read this book before. The ship is a metaphor for The USA after the assassination of Abe Lincoln during the <em>Reconstruction Period</em>