A square and a circle sat down one day and each of them had a lot to say. The square sald, "I have four sides, all straight and true. I make buildings and boxes and cages at zoos, Which don't let the wild animals ever escape. I must be the most useful shape." The circle sald, "I have no beginning, and I have no end, My one side is one perpetual bend. I make marbles and bubbles and a target's bulls-eye Surely there's no shape lovelier than I." With which statement would the author most likely agree? 1. Squares are more common than circles in the real world. 02. Circles are seen in nature more than squares. O 3. Squares and circles are the most important shapes of all. 4. Circles and squares are both interesting and common.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.