Read the following excerpt from an article by a literary critic.
In "The Yellow Wallpaper" Charlotte Perkins Gilman deeply
criticizes the ideal of the "domestic woman" whose entire
domain is limited to the household. In fact, Gilman herself
was prescribed an extreme version of domesticity in the
form of a "rest cure" by a misguided physician.
Which statement most accurately identifies the theme that the critic is
discussing and the historical context that affects the theme?
) A. The theme is the ideal of the "domestic woman," and the historical
context is Gilman's own experience with domesticity.
O
B. The theme is Charlotte Perkins Gilman herself, and the historical
context is Gilman's exploration of domesticity.
O
C. The theme is the domain of the household, and the historical
context is its presence in The Yellow Wallpaper."
O
D. The theme is "The Yellow Wallpaper," and the historical context is
the misguided physician and his controversial "rest cure."

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