Which detail from the text best establishes the influence of religion on this setting?
Which detail most effectively creates an atmosphere of
danger?
Toward the setting of the eighth sun, I came to the banks
of the great river. It was half-a-day's journey after I had
left the god-road-we do not use the god-roads now for
they are falling apart into great blocks of stone, and the
forest is safer going. A long way off, I had seen the water
through trees but the trees were thick. At last, I came out
upon an open place at the top of a cliff. There was the
great river below, like a giant in the sun. It is very long,
very wide. It could eat all the streams we know and still
be thirsty. Its name is Ou-dis-sun, the Sacred, the Long.
No man of my tribe had seen it, not even my father, the
priest. It was magic and I prayed.
Then I raised my eyes and looked south. It was there, the
Place of the Gods.
-"By the Waters of Babylon,"
Stephen Vincent Benet

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