Read the following excerpt from The Age of Innocence to determine mood. "To the general relief, the Countess Olenska was not present in her grandmother's drawing-room during the visit of the
betrothed couple. Mrs. Mingott said she had gone out; which, on a day of such glaring sunlight, and at the "shopping
hour," seemed in itself an indelicate thing for a compromised woman to do. But at any rate it spared them the
embarrassment of her presence, and the faint shadow that her unhappy past might seem to shed on their radiant future.
The visit went off successfully, as was to have been expected. Old Mrs. Mingott was delighted with the engagement,
which, being long foreseen by watchful relatives, had been carefully passed upon in family council; and the engagement
ring, a large thick sapphire set in invisible claws, met with her unqualified admiration."
Which word best describes the mood of this paragraph?
amiable
embarrassing
gloomy
quarrelsome

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