After Romeo is banished, Juliet tells her mother that she wishes she could go and find him. What is ironic about this? A) Juliet would be banished as well. B) Juliet is preparing to marry Paris and that would disrupt the wedding plans. C) Juliet’s mother things she wants to go and kill Romeo to avenge Tybalt’s death instead of her running off with her lover. D) Paris wants to chase down Romeo and kill him for Tybalt’s death, so Juliet, knowing where Romeo is, would be making it easier for Paris to find him.

a low four-wheeled open carriage of a kind formerly used in russia.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.