Read the excerpt from a short story The Sonoran Desert route was his favorite. His friends were surprised he could endure the solitude of it, but
he cherished the barren miles. Today he'd passed a mile of verbena in full bloom, followed by ten miles with
nothing but sagebrush. The next leg promísed cliffs, and he loved to imagine scaling them as he traversed the
desolate highway. In fact, one was rising in the distance, and the highway would bear right around it. He
looked down to cool the temperature, looked up again, and stared. The grill of a tractor trailer, in his lane, was
bearing down upon him.
How does the excerpt exemplify the ideas King describes in "Danse Macabre"?
O Itallows readers to approach a "forbidden door"
O It provides a single powerful spectacle" for the imagination's eye.
O It forces readers to "grapple" with their own mortality
O It introduces an unlikely "dancing partner."

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.