Which statement most accurately describes a central theme that runs throughout dante's inferno?
a. no person, powerful or weak, rich or poor, can escape the laws of god.
b. the greatest threat to one's purity is the corrupting influence of trusted friends.
c. a person's status among the living reflects his or her status in the afterlife.
d. hell is divided into nine circles, and each is devoted to a different kind of sin.

Read the following excerpt from "harrison bergeron" by kurt vonnegut: he tried to think a little about the ballerinas. they weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. they were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. george was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. but he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. what message about the role of media is best supported in this excerpt? a. media are the reason george is able to watch ballet. b. media change people's values, making them more selfish. c. media tend to make audiences' worldviews the same. d. media can be used to distract audiences from the truth.