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1. Describe the stranger's state of mind. What makes you think this? - He is up to something and want to find out. 2. Is the stranger poor, middle class, or rich? Which phrases give you clues? - He is rich because he has 200lbs on him [money]. 3. In what kind of place are the old couple living? Which words tell you this? - There in a house because it says during the beginning. 4. Who is Herbert? What makes you think this? - Her Son because it says in the third paragraph 5. What has happened to Herbert? Which phrases give you clues? - He is hurt badly in the 5th line from the bottom it says. 6. What is the woman's reaction to hearing about Herbert? What makes you think this? - She is sad because it says she is deeply emotional. 7. The passage describes the husband as "slower-witted." What does that imply? - He doesnt understand that his son is dead.

1.)In the tradition-bound old navy of the 1850s, little interest was devoted to building ironclad ships.
 * Facts- The Dual**

2.)the European naval powers drove to update their fleets, while America’s naval leaders, many with a half century of service or more, preferred to keep building wooden ships that had masts and rigging, even when they also had steam engines.

3.)But the war changed that. Southern leaders, knowing they would have to break the Union blockade but lacking ships to match, tossed away comfortable old ideas and fixed upon the potential of ironclads to compensate for their fleet’s inequality, and to wreck the Yankees’ walls of wood.

2.)helmsman turned away. 3.)celebrated for their efforts.
 * Opinions-**
 * 1.)**Virginia like a blacksmith