Read the excerpt below from act 1.1 of the tragedy of julius caesar and answer the question that follows. cobbler: i am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes: when they are in great danger i recover them. which description fits best with what the cobbler means by the use of the word “recover” as a pun? a)he cures them and puts a new sole to “cover” them. b)he uses his work to him “get over” what he is upset about. c)he has old shoes himself, so he cannot anyone else. d)as a plebeian, he is not allowed to fix his own shoes.

A)He cures them and puts a new sole to “cover” them.

In this excerpt, the cobbler is describing his job, which is fixing old shoes. He explains that he is a surgeon and that he "recovers" endangered shoes. He is making a comparison between sick people and shoes that need to be fixed. Just as a surgeon might operate on sick people and help them recover health, the cobbler works on old shoes to help them become beautiful and useful again.

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that his long years of service outweigh any faults he may have had.

he wanted to be remembered for the good things he did, one of those being when he gave up office so others would follow suit, but george washington wasn’t a man who thought he was perfect, he knew he made mistakes. he was a very talented soldier with a natural gift of tactic.