"The dead" Why does Gabriel smile at something Lily says on p. 2? What mistake does he then make (in his view)?

What is the “standing joke” with Gabriel’s aunts referenced on p. 4? What things does he make his family members do?

On p. 9, what does Aunt Kate communicate to Mr. Browne about Freddy? What does he do for Freddy in response?

Why does Miss Ivors call Gabriel a “West Briton” on p. 10? What does it appear her politics are, and how do her remarks make Gabriel feel?

What does Aunt Kate get mad about on p. 15? Who is she defending, and who tries to calm her down?

Why does Gabriel not take part in the conversation on p. 18? What does Freddy bring up that other people do not respond to?

Name three points that Gabriel makes in his toast on pgs. 22 and 23. What is the reception to his words?

What does Gabriel imitate on p. 26? Who does he see on the stairs at the bottom of p. 27 and what is she doing?

What were the “fire of stars moments” that Gabriel remembers on p. 31? What are the feelings he is having? What does he want?

What does Gabriel think of his previous “riot of emotions” on p. 38? How does he look at his wife when she is sleeping? What is he imagining the snow doing?

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