Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. the cia planning was extraordinary. questions were asked. problems were anticipated, solutions suggested. with information provided by an informant in the soviet state-run telephone operation, the u. s. knew that the spot they needed to reach with the tunnel was under schonefelder chaussee, a major highway that ran along the southern edge of berlin. which statement best describes the author’s viewpoint in the passage? the us government planned a spy mission in eastern germany to obtain information. the us government’s skillful use of research and intelligence enabled a vital spy mission. the united states worked with other allied countries to create a tunnel under a highway in berlin. the united states violated international rules of diplomacy when spying on the russians in berlin.

Read the movie summary. two rival magicians compete for fame and success in edwardian london. when their bitter feud begins to escalate, they each resort to more and more dangerous tricks to try to outdo the other, ultimately placing the lives and sanity of those around them in jeopardy. based on this summary, the film is most likely a(n) action thriller dramatic thriller psychological thriller science fiction thriller

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

Read this passage from "the pedestrian" by ray bradbury: which sentence best describes the overall impact of the setting?