Brutus. he is not doubted.—a word, lucillius.

how he received you let me be resolved.

lucillius. with courtesy and with respect enough,

but not with such familiar instances,

nor with such free and friendly conference,

as he hath used of old.

brutus. thou hast described

a hot friend cooling. ever note, lucillius:

when love begins to sicken and decay

it useth an enforcèd ceremony.

there are no tricks in plain and simple faith;

but hollow men, like horses hot at hand,

make gallant show and promise of their mettle;

but when they should endure the bloody spur,

they fall their crests and, like deceitful jades,

sink in the trial. comes his army on?

–the tragedy of julius caesar,
william shakespeare

based on this passage, how have the interactions between characters changed? check all that apply.

cassius has decided to be more trusting of lucillius.
brutus has come to appreciate his friendship with cassius.
the conflict between brutus and cassius is growing in intensity.
brutus now suspects cassius because he has become too polite.
the conflict between brutus and lucillius has strained their relationship.

Which of the following words in bold means “to put before something else”? a) the broken device sat unused in a box. b) jose wanted to defermaking a decision about college until the spring. c) ashok’s counsel was to go to the store tomorrow. d) i would prefer to go to a movie this weekend instead of the play.

How does visiting the place of the gods affect the narrator? a. he discovers that it is unwise to have an inquiring mind b. he learns that there is nothing supernatural to fear in the destroyed city c. he renounces everything he learned from the priests and his father d. he understands that the past has nothing of interest for people of the present

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant