Actually began as a way to prevent strong emotional
attachments. couples were assigned for the sole purpose
of species survival. children were reassigned to new
families regularly. the puppeteers went to great lengths to
make sure we were isolated and fractured. but what they
hadn't counted on was that this common tragedy would
unite us that instead of turning against one another, we
would rally together. i was not allowed to raise my own son
and daughter. but i would do my best to love and raise
every displaced son and daughter who came through my
home.
what is one way the author uses irony to convey her message?
a. by having the oppressed families rally together, she shows that strong emotional attachments cannot be prohibited
b. by having puppeteers again families, she knows that those in control are abusing their power
c. by having the narrator raise children lovingly, she shows that these people are living in a fractured society
b. by having couples join solely for the survival of the species, she shows that it is a difficult setting in which to survive

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