True.

1. To me it sounds like the author is saying that not everyone who rebelled can be bad. Some of them must have had their own reasons for rebelling. 2. Yes, I think your right. I read it as they had good ideas and meant well, but tried to achieve their goals in the wrong way. 3. I read it as, even with good intentions people can still make mistakes. Even a balanced mind (a sane mind, a mind attempting to make a reasonable decision) can still make the wrong decision or end up choosing the wrong side. That doesn't mean the person inherently bad or evil though. Overall, the passage in my opinion, is saying that Ardent needs to take into consideration that not everyone is a bad person for rebelling and let that fact have some influence on deciding the penalty for them.

In my experiences, this game is typically played by saying “higher” or “lower” when responding to a guess.

An example, two young boys on the playground: Sam: “Wow Tom, your pretty tall.” Tom: “I am tall, but my dad is taller.” Sam: “yeah, but my dad is even taller than your dad.” It can be used for emphasis. However, the examples you mentioned can be said either way. You can say “I am tall, but my dad is taller” or “I am tall, but my dads even taller”. The sentence alone has relatively the exact same meaning. Even, in my opinion, it is used more often when the speaker is trying to emphasize what they are comparing as being better or more exciting or more impressive than the other. Another example: “I am a great baseball player, but I am an even better soccer player” I already said I am great at baseball, so to get the message across that I play soccer better than I play baseball I can use ”even”. Of course you can always say “I am great at baseball, but I am better at soccer”. But if you wanted to emphasis that it’s impressive that you could be better than you already are you could use “even better”. I hope this helps you a little bit, English can be confusing sometimes.

Developed would sound like you created the model. I would go with I followed the eclectic model, or I used the eclectic model.