Read this excerpt from The Golem. RABBI LOW The emperor will need more convincing than I can provide. But there must be another way to save our people. That's what I'm looking for in these books. PEARL In your books!?! RABBI LOW These books contain holy truth. The secrets of the true world, not this world of illusion. There are prophecies, prayers, charms. One of them will reveal a way to protect our people. I know it. PEARL How do you know it? Rabbi Low buries his head in his hands. He lifts his head and looks at Pearl. RABBI LOW Because it must. What do Rabbi Low’s lines and actions best show about him? He is deeply knowledgeable of his reading material. He believes deeply in the wisdom of his books. He is deeply frustrated with the emperor. He is deeply troubled by his wife Pearl.

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.