Instructions: select all the correct answers. read this excerpt from act iii, scene i, of shakespeare’s romeo and juliet: romeo: this gentleman, the prince's near ally, my very friend, hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf; my reputation stain'd with tybalt's slander,—tybalt, that an hour hath been my kinsman! o sweet juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate and in my temper soften'd valour's steel! what is the central idea of the excerpt? romeo blames falling in love with juliet as the cause of mercutio’s death. romeo blames tybalt’s hatred towards the montagues as the cause of mercutio’s death. romeo blames his own cowardice and refusal to fight as the cause of mercutio’s death. romeo blames mercutio’s impulsiveness as the cause of mercutio’s death. romeo blames benvolio’s inability to stop the fight as the cause of mercutio’s death.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?