Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this speech.

Which excerpt from George Washington's Farewell Address best expresses a major theme of the address?

A. “You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together.”

B. “The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discrimination.”

C. “For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest.”

D. “But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest.”

Question 1. Answer: “The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.”

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Question 2. Answer: Yes, he states: “While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts greater strength. . .”

Question 3. Answer: With an abolitionist in charge, life for Mississippians will be more difficult than under British rule.

Question 4. Answer: “In the language of the venerated Calhoun I consider the disruption of the Union as a great though not the greatest calamity.”

Question 5. Answer: Yes, by stating: “…how utterly fallacious it is to ascribe to them [the framers] the purpose of interfering with the domestic institutions of any of the States.”