The text of “The Place and the People” describes Outa Karel as a very skilled actor. Which sentences support this idea?
Select ALL that apply.
The Place and the People
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A. The center of attention was the quaint old native, who, having relegated his duties to his children and grandchildren, lived as a privileged pensioner in the van der Merwe family he had served so faithfully for three generations.
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B. “Ach! but young master this s old black one knows no new stories, only the old ones of Jackal and Lion, and how can he tell even those when his throat is dry—ach, so dry with the dust from the plains?”
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C. “Ach! If a Bushman only had a neck like an ostrich! How good would the soopje taste all the way down!”
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D. He forced a gurgling cough, and his small eyes glittered expectantly.

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