Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
there was 1, then, mounted aloft; i, who had said i could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet
in the middle of the room, was now exposed to general view on a pedestal of infamy. what my sensations
were no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl
came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes. what a strange light inspired them! what an
extraordinary sensation that ray sent through me! how the new feeling bore me up! it was as if a martyr, a
hero, had passed a slave or victim, and imparted strength in the transit. i mastered the rising hysteria, lifted
up my head, and took a firm stand on the stool.
which statements identify inferences that can be reached from the passage? select all that apply.
accepting an unjust punishment can be empowering in that it reaffirms a person's convictions.
one should not feel shame when one is being unjustly punished.
when a person is unjustly punished, it reflects poorly on the perpetrator alone.
descriptions of physical punishment are often gratuitous and should be limited.

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