Read this passage from "The Monkey's Paw": "I wish for two hundred pounds," said the old man distinctly. A fine crash from the piano greeted the words,
interrupted by a shuddering cry from the old man. His wife and son ran toward
him. "It moved," he cried, with a glance of disgust at the object as it lay on the
floor. "As I wished it twisted in my hands like a snake." "Well, I don't see the
money," said his son, as he picked it up and placed it on the table, "and I bet I
never shall, "Which sentence best explains what the author is foreshadowing in
this passage? *
The son will never see the money because he will be dead.
The son will trìck his father into believing his wish came true.
Mr. White's wish on the monkey's paw will not come true.

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