Please place the events from The Crucible Act IV (4) into the correct order: a b c d e f a Trying to encourage John Proctor to confess, the court brings Elizabeth to speak with John. He tells her he is thinking of confessing though he knows it will be a lie. b John and Rebecca Nurse are led to the gallows while Elizabeth refuses to beg him because she understands that it is the only way for him to break free of his self-hatred. c Elizabeth tells John some of this situation was her fault because of how she handled the affair. She tells John he must decide what to do. d John agrees to confess, but at the last minute cannot do it because it will permanently disgrace his name. e Hale is trying to get prisoners to confess to their crimes rather than lose their lives. We discover Abigail and Mercy have run away. f Worried about hanging respectful people, and realizing his neice lied, Reverend Parris tries to encourage the court to postpone the hangings, but Danforth refuses to do so because he things it will make him look bad.

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