Read the passage. injured dog checks herself into local animal hospital oyster bay, del. — mia, a six-year-old german shepherd, limped into the oyster bay animal hospital early yesterday morning without her owners. dr. danielle kim, the veterinarian on duty at the time, examined mia and noticed an infected cut on mia’s right front paw. dr. kim treated mia’s wound and contacted the owners, sharon and norton mckirdy of nearby driftwood, whose contact information was found on mia’s tags. mia had been missing for two days, and although her owners were relieved to have found her, they were surprised to hear that their pet had taken herself to get treatment for her injury. “i have no idea how mia found her way to that particular animal hospital,” said mrs. mckirdy. “we’ve never taken her there before. besides, she hates going to the vet.” dr. kim was equally surprised. “i’ve been a veterinarian for almost 12 years, but i’ve never seen a dog seek her own care,” she said. which standard journalist’s question is not answered in this article’s lead? a: what b: where c: when d: why

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