Read the excerpt below from the novel songmaster by orson scott card and answer the question that follows. nniv did not go meet mikal’s starship. instead, he waited in the rambling stone songhouse, listening to the son of the walls, the whisper of the hundred young voices from the chambers and the stalls, the cold rhythm of the drafts. there were few in the galaxy who would dare to make mikal come to them. nniv was not daring, however. it did not occur to him that the songmaster needed to go meet anyone. source: card, orson scott. songmaster. new york: tor-forge, 1987. google books. web. 22 july 2011. which phrase reveals setting? “mikal’s starship” “son of the walls” “cold rhythm” “the whisper”

John asks mond why they have to have whole groups of identical deltas. why not make everyone an alpha plus like bernard and helmholtz? are you satisfied with mond’s answer?

In the conclusion of the radio broadcast war of the worlds, orson welles:

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