Read this excerpt from "Fences." I peek throRead this excerpt from "Fences." I peek through the cactus fence and watch the women rub oil sweeter than honey into their arms and legs while their children jump waves or sip drinks from long straws, coconut white, mango yellow. For which reasons does the poet most likely choose a fence made of cactus? Check all that apply. Cactus is sharp, which represents the pain the natives feel. The speaker raises cactus plants in her home. Cactus plants are found at tourist beaches. Cactus is the symbol of oppressed people all over the world. One can see through a cactus fence, but it is hard to climb through. ugh the cactus fence and watch the women rub oil sweeter than honey into their arms and legs while their children jump waves or sip drinks from long straws, coconut white, mango yellow. For which reasons does the poet most likely choose a fence made of cactus? Check all that apply. Cactus is sharp, which represents the pain the natives feel. The speaker raises cactus plants in her home. Cactus plants are found at tourist beaches. Cactus is the symbol of oppressed people all over the world. One can see through a cactus fence, but it is hard to climb through.

Central ideas are the most ideas in a text.

Which statement state a claim? check all that apply. (1) the driver education programs are often to sophomore’s at local high schools. (2) students should have a vision test before they can operate motor vehicles. (3) driving classes should i head instruction about the dangers of texting and driving. (4) mr. graber is the behind-the-wheel instructor at our high school. (5) behind-the-wheel courses ought to include driving time on local highways.

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