Read the passage. Meanwhile, ... the brother and sister, for such they were, seemed to be fastening something to their feet--not skates, certainly, but clumsy
pieces of wood narrowed and smoothed at their lower edge, and plerced with holes, through which were threaded strings of rawhide.
These queer-looking affairs had been made by the boy Hans. His mother was a poor peasant woman, too poor even to think of such a thing
as buying skates for her little ones. Rough as these were, they had afforded the children many a happy hour upon the ice
In another moment they were all laughing together, as hand in hand they flew along the canal, never thinking whether the ice would bear
them or not, for in Holland ice is generally an all-winter affair.
(from Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge)
What is the theme of the passage?
O 1. Holland gets very cold in the winter.
02. Skating can be a very dangerous sport.
O 3. Families are there to defend each other.
04. Money is not always needed to be happy.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion