Read the excerpt from willa cather’s review of the awakening from the pittsburgh leader, july 8, 1899.

an author’s choice of themes is frequently as inexplicable as his choice of a wife. it is governed by some innate temperamental bias that cannot be diagrammed. this is particularly so in women who write, and i shall not attempt to say why miss chopin has devoted so exquisite and sensitive, well-governed a style to so trite and sordid a theme. she writes much better than it is ever given to most people to write, and hers is a genuinely literary style.
what is willa cather’s response to chopin’s writing?
cather is critical of chopin’s complicated plot.
cather is critical of chopin’s writing style.
cather is critical of chopin’s temperamental characters.
cather is critical of chopin’s choice of themes.

Read the passage from chapter 17 of the prince. and of all princes, it is impossible for the new prince to avoid the imputation of cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers. hence virgil, through the mouth of dido, excuses the inhumanity of her reign owing to its being new, saying: "res dura, et regni novitas me talia cogunt moliri, et late fines custode tueri."(*) nevertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable. . against my will, my fate a throne unsettled, and an infant state, bid me defend my realms with all my pow'rs, and guard with these severities my shores. what reasoning does machiavelli use in this passage? machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by first introducing the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with evidence. machiavelli uses deductive reasoning by starting with statistical evidence and then concluding that rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by first presenting an observed pattern of details and then concluding that new rulers must be cruel. machiavelli uses inductive reasoning by starting with the conclusion that new rulers must be cruel and then supporting it with short narratives.