Part A What inference can be made about the Gorgons in "Perseus and the Quest for Medusa's Head"?
• They were unaware of Perseus approaching them on the bank and his attack surprised them.
O They tried to look at Perseus and turn him to stone, but their powers had disappeared.
O They were pretending to be asleep and were prepared to defend themselves.
O They could smell Perseus approaching, but did not know he was a danger to them.
Part B
Which evidence from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
O "Then the two older Gorgons awoke and rose with dreadful screams, and spread their great wings and dashed after him."
O
"He flew a little nearer, but he did not dare to look straight forward, lest he should all at once meet the gaze of a Gorgon
and be turned to stone."
O "He heard a sound as of someone breathing heavily, and he looked around to see where it came from."
"Very stealthily he went nearer and nearer, always with his back toward the monsters and always looking into his bright
shield to see where to go."

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.