2. Juan is very excited about learning to sew. Which of the following sentences from the passage
best supports this statement?
A “Juan felt proud that people wanted to wear his mother's creations on their special days."
B “Juan sat on the floor of Mom's sewing room with one eye on his soccer magazine and
one eye on his mother."
С "Juan had a huge smile on his face when he looked over his shoulder at his mom."
D "Then he remembered the patience that his mother always showed, and he slowed
down."

The correct word to complete the sentence

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 steps best a reader determine the central idea of a text? select three options.