Part A What is the central idea of the fourth paragraph?

A) Whale populations are growing slowly each year.

B) The ban on whaling applies to all IWC member nations.

C) Governments must prove they are entitled to continue whaling.

D) Limited whaling would be permitted under special circumstances.

Part B.

Which sentence from the text best supports the answer of the part A.

A) “Therefore, no one can reasonably argue that despite its brutality, whaling is necessary because whale products are essential.”

B) “When studies showed that many of the world’s whale populations had fallen to alarming lows, the IWC banned commercial whaling altogether—a ban that all member nations must obey.”

C) “When some nations argued for cultural and scientific exemptions to the moratorium on whaling, the IWC agreed.”

D) “Whales face many dangers besides being the deliberate targets of hunters.”

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.

Match the term to the correct example. 1. allusion juliet: else would i tear the cave where echo lies, / and make her airy tongue more hoarse than 2. imagery chorus: that fair for which love groan’d for and would die, / with tender juliet match’d, is now not fair. 3. personification friar laurence: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; / too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 4. foreshadowing romeo: the brightness of her cheek would shame those stars / as daylight doth a lamp.

How does this comparison reinforce what powell is trying to say in this paragraph