Read the excerpt from act i, scene iii of romeo and juliet.

nurse: faith, i can tell her age unto an hour.

lady capulet: she’s not fourteen.

nurse: i’ll lay fourteen of my teeth—
and yet to my teen be it spoken i have but four—
she is not fourteen. how long is it now 20
to lammas-tide?

lady capulet: a fortnight and odd days.

nurse: even or odd, of all days in the year,

come lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.

the nurse can be viewed as a comic figure in the excerpt because of her

a careless housekeeping.
b willingness to serve.
c roundabout answer.
d firm religious beliefs.

More than a hundred million e-mails are sent around the world each day, and they are all vulnerable to interception. digital technology has aided communication, but it has also given rise to the possibility of those communications being monitored. according to zimmermann, cryptographers have a duty to encourage the use of encryption and thereby protect the privacy of the individual. —the code book, simon singh what is the purpose of the statistic in this passage? it shows how big the need is for protection. it explains that email is an effective form of communication. it gives new ways to monitor email traffic. it illustrates how popular email has become.