Part a

how does ezra's behavior after his mom and his aunt leave affect the story?

it creates tension by revealing, for the first time, how nervous ezra is about going out with juliana.

it creates mystery by revealing, just moments before the date, how little ezra really knows about juliana.

it creates humor by showing ezra realizing that his mother and aunt were only pretending to be wary of lending him the car.

it increases the suspense by subtly foreshadowing that ezra may not be focused enough on driving the new convertible.

part b

which evidence from the text best supports the correct answer in part a?

ezra worries that juliana might think that driving a car that "had cost as much as a small house" is foolish because he barely knows her.

ezra lets out a "hoot" because he is so nervous about going on a date with juliana, whom he has liked for years.

ezra realizes that his mother and his aunt want his date with juliana to go well just as much as he wants it to go well.

ezra thinks more about how impressed juliana will be, her parents' surprise, and how fine he'll look driving the car than he does about driving safely.

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