Excerpt from My Antonia
Willa Cather
Sometimes I went south to visit our German neighbours and to admire their catalpa grove, or to see the big elm tree that grew
up out of a deep crack in the earth and had a hawk's nest in its branches. Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to
make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have
been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious
The narrator worries about the trees in that part of the country because

A) they are so scarce

Which of the following is a characteristic of theme? a. it is the same as a moral b. it runs throughout a text c. it exist only in literature d. it is unique to each piece of work

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.

How is dr. lanyon characterized in the excerpt? as friendly as arrogant as wise as mournful