Both use flashback to provide crucial background to the characters' situation
The correct answer here would be that "conscription was despotism."
Despotism
refers to the absolute rule of the a single entity who rules as it
choose. That was usually a monarch but it can be any kind of government
that obstructs the rights of its citizens. It is used to describe the
abuse of power and the oppressing of people. Here conscription is
despotism as the government is oppressing the people and their rights
given to them by the 13th Amendment and it is abusing its power.
A sentence style employed by
Hemingway that uses many conjunctions is called polysyndeton. The answer is
letter B. The conjunctions are repeated in close successions and some could be omitted
due to the repetition.
The first one means that you tried to stop feeling nervous or you tried to swallow so much that you couldn't.
The second one means that you are getting more nervous, or anxious.
Hope this was helpful!!!^_^
To figure out the empty spot you add all the percents up then subtract 100. That means that the answer is 11 for the section