Read the excerpt from "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe. He had come out of the war with five inestimable blessingsâ€"his head, his wife Maria’s head and the heads of three out of their four children. As a bonus he also had his old bicycleâ€"a miracle too but naturally not to be compared to the safety of five human heads. Which theme does this passage convey? A family has survived the war intact. Luck will guide you to a happy ending. A bicycle should be considered a miracle. Family is the most important thing in life.

Select the correct answers. read the prologue for act ll of william shakespeare's play romeo and juliet chorus: now old desire doth in his death-bed lie, and young affection gapes to be his heir, that fail for which love groan'd for and would die, with tender juliet match'd, is now not fair. now romeo is beloved and loves again, alike betwitched by the charm of looks, but to his foe supposed he must complain, and she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks: being held a foe, he may not have access to breathe such vows as lovers use to swear and she as much in love, her means much less to meet her new-beloved any where: but passion lends them power, time means, to meet tempering extremities with extreme sweet. in the previous act, romeo and juliet have fallen in love, even though their families despise one another. based on the excerpt, purposes of this prologue?