PART A: Which statement best describes a theme of the play excerpts? A. Love makes people more willing to change and face obstacles. B. Children should be obedient and not go against their parents’ wishes. C. Grudges are easy to overcome, to forgive, and to forget. D. People’s fates are set in stone and cannot be changed. 2.PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?A.“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross’d lovers taketheir life” (Lines 5-6)B.“The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, / And the continuance of theirparents’ rage, / Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove” (Lines9-11)C.“What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, / Nor arm, nor face, nor any otherpart / Belonging to a man.” (Lines 22-24)D.“Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptiz’d; / Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”(Lines 33-34)

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt