His sister beneatha enters. she is about twenty, as slim and intense as her brother. she is not as pretty as her sister-in-law, but her lean, almost intellectual face has a handsomeness of its own. she wears a bright-red flannel nightie, and her thick hair stands wildly about her head.
what does the description of beneatha in this excerpt best reveal about her as a character?
a. it shows that she is her own person and doesn't care about how she looks.
b. it reveals that she and her brother walter have a great deal in common.
c. it reveals that she is envious that her sister-in-law is prettier than she is.
d. it shows that she thinks she is intellectually superior to her family.

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.