Read this passage about Chang and Eng, conjoined twins who once worked in a traveling circus: After many years of touring, Chang and Eng decided to retire and live a normal life. The two bought land in North
Carolina and became American citizens. They eventually married sisters, Sally and Adelaide Yates, and all together had
22 children. In 1874, Eng woke one morning to discover that his brother had died from a blood clot in the night. Eng had
been in better health than his brother, but he died less than three hours later. Doctors could find no explanation for Eng's
death.
What is the best inference to make, based on this passage?
Select one:
O a. Chang and Eng's wives probably died soon after.
O b. Doctors did not look hard enough to find how Eng died.
O c. Eng may have died of sorrow, missing his brother.
O d. The sisters wanted to live apart after their husbands died.

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