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Q & A
What conflict about love is suggested by Benvolio? A. True love is difficult to find. B. Love seems kind but can be cruel. C. Romeo is loved by someone he does not love. D. Love changes one’s view of time.
Read the selection from Act I, Scene I of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Then, answer
the questions that follow.
BENVOLIO Good morrow, c ousin.
ROMEO Is the day so young?
BENVOLIO But new struck nine.
ROMEO Ay me! sad hours seem long.
5 Was that my father that went hence so fast?
BENVOLIO It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?
ROMEO Not having that, which having, makes them short.
10 BENVOLIO In love?
ROMEO Out—
BENVOLIO Of love?
ROMEO Out of her favour, where I am in love.
BENVOLIO Alas! that love, so gentle in his view,
Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof.