Sonia is adapting the following scene into a sketch for her school’s drama club. Compare her version to the original: Original:

Rory stood pensively before the wall, which towered many dozens of feet high and had, so far as he could tell, no doors, no notches, no features of any kind. How frustrating, and yet, it was certainly a challenge.

Staged:

(RORY and BELINDA stare up at a wall—it is high enough that its top cannot be seen on stage.)

BELINDA: How many feet high is it, do you think?

RORY: (excitedly) Dozens, I should think! No less than 60.

BELINDA: There must be some kind of door! Or notches, or dents, something to climb . . .

RORY: (gleeful) No, nothing of the sort. No features of any kind—look!

BELINDA (pouting): How tremendously frustrating!

RORY: Ah, but what a delicious challenge!

Which of the following best describes how adding a second character affects the scene?

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt