Mr. and mrs. dursley, of number four, privet drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, you very much. they were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn't hold with such nonsense. which of the following is the best paraphrase of the passage above? a. mr. and mrs. dursley were absolutely normal and did not like anything weird. b. mr. and mrs. dursely lived at number four, privet drive, and were proud of being absolutely normal. the couple were so normal that nobody would expect them to be involved in anything odd or weird. besides, they thought strange things were just nonsense. c. they did not like anything abnormal. d. mr. and mrs. dursley were the aunt and uncle of harry potter, a fact that he would soon learn to despise.

Hurry need it ! 35 points in achebe’s things fall apart, the igbo people live in a patriarchal society; accordingly, they worship several different gods all property and authority belong to men all business transactions are done by barter they live under the authority of a foreign ruler

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

What is the source of tension in this excerpt? ellery searching everything insects filling the light fixtures ellery standing on the desks louise carpenter whispering