Highlight evidence to support the conclusion that Gilgamesh takes risks. They came within sight of the monster’s den.
He was waiting inside it. Their blood ran cold.
He saw the two friends, he grimaced, he bared
his teeth, he let out a deafening roar.
He glared at Gilgamesh. “Young man,” he said,
“you will never go home. Prepare to die.”
Dread surged through Gilgamesh, terror flooded
his muscles, his heart froze, his mouth went dry,
his legs shook, his feet were rooted to the
ground.
–Gilgamesh: A New English Translation,
Stephen Mitchell
Which statement best paraphrases evidence from the passage to support the conclusion?
The beast intends to kill Gilgamesh and Enkidu, but they are not scared.
Gilgamesh’s reaction to Humbaba is misunderstood as fear.
Humbaba is so terrifying that Gilgamesh is momentarily paralyzed with fear.
Humbaba speaks as though he is stronger than Gilgamesh, but the reader knows he is not.

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