10. Which sentence from the passage best supports the inference that the author believes
the soldiers died for a noble cause?
A We see the pale cheeks of women and the flushed faces of men; and in those
assemblages we see all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowers.
And some are talking with wives, and endeavoring with brave words, spoken in the
old tones, to drive from their hearts the awful fear.
C. ... we see them bound hand and foot; we hear the strokes of cruel whips; we see the
hounds tracking women through tangled swamps.
D. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under
the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines.