225. The young man possessed ______ disposition, abjectly submissive to the will of others.
A. an amiable
B. an inscrutable
C. a servile
D. a jocular
E. a melancholy
226. Although other European states broke apart under the streeses of political upheaval, the seventeenth-century Dutch republic proved remarkably ______ .
A. propitious
B. illusory
C. resilient
D. pertinent
E. poignant