Which of the following is the best statement about friar lawrence?
a. friar lawrence is a well-intended holy man who was empathetically trying to romeo and juliet.
b. friar lawrence issecretly a schemer who doesn't care about the ultimate effects of his actions.
c. friar lawrence is not very smart, though he does have a good heart.
d. friar lawrence tries to place the blame for the tragedy on everyone except himself.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

Postreading strategies are used before reading a text. when reading for specific information. when reading for general meaning. after reading a text.

Apply the ideas of the plain language movement to make the paragraph under "before" in section i more user-friendly.