In all the parish there was no goodwife should offering make before her, on my life; and if one did, indeed, so wroth was she it put her out of all her charity. her kerchiefs were of finest weave and ground; i dare swear that they weighed a full ten pound which, of a sunday, she wore on her head. her hose were of the choicest scarlet red, close gartered, and her shoes were soft and new. bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue. she'd been respectable throughout her life, with five churched husbands bringing joy and strife, not counting other company in youth; but thereof there's no need to speak, in truth. based on this passage, and what you know of medieval society, which best describes the wife of bath? a. a charitable, well-dressed divorcee b. an extravagant, lustful, veteran widow. c. a passionate advocate for woman's rights d. a typical representation of middle class wifehood.

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