Question 2 of 23 • 2025 Summer MA-English Language Arts 9 B (Full w/pretest)
Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Friar Laurence: On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.Paris: My father Capulet will have it so;And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.5Friar Laurence: You say you do not know the lady’s mind:Uneven is the course, I like it not.Paris: Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,And therefore have I little talk’d of love;For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.10
Answer
A
because Paris has not expressed his love to Juliet
B
because Friar Laurence has already married Juliet to Romeo
C
because Capulet has already welcomed Romeo into the family
D
because Juliet is still mourning the death of her cousin Tybalt