Which lines from the inferno best reflect dante's message that "it's better to live a christian life than suffer in hell for eternity"? a. and he replied, "o foolhardy creatures, / what immense ignorance trips you up! / now i want you to absorb my teaching." (canto vii, lines 70 – 71) b."tell me where they are and how to know them, / for keen desire drives me on to learn / whether heaven heals or hell poisons them." (canto vi, lines 82 – 84) c. o vengeance of god, how much you ought to be / held in fear by everyone who reads / the things that were revealed before my eyes! (canto xiv, lines 16 – 18) d. at that we moved on down to the fourth crater / taking in more of that grief-stricken slope / which stacks all the evil of the universe. (canto vii, lines 16 – 18)

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