Going along, having indeed my life, but little spirit, philip, who was in the company, came up and took me by the hand, and said, two weeks more and you shall be mistress again. i asked him, if he spake true? he answered, "yes, and quickly you shall come to your master again; who had been gone from us three weeks." after many weary steps we came to wachusett, where he was: and glad i was to see him. he asked me, when i washed me? i told him not this month. then he fetched me some water himself, and bid me wash, and gave me the glass to see how i looked; and bid his squaw give me something to eat. so she gave me a mess of beans and meat, and a little ground nut cake. i was wonderfully revived with this favor showed me: "he made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives" (psalm 106.46).
rowlandson's purpose for including this excerpt is
a. to show the cruelty of the native americans
b. to show the puritans that god would not them
c. to convince puritans to have faith in god
d. to convince others of the compassion of native americans

the tone of the passage is sympathetic to the forbidden love of romeo and juliet. the nurse plays a significant role in the play. she is responsible for making their meeting again possible. additionally, there is a sense of warning in the choice of words of the nurse. she seems to be authoritative when she calls romeo "scurvy knave", and at the same time the fact that she addresses to him as "sir" reflects respect. the nurse is "vexed", this word describes her confused state of mind. on the one hand, she finds romeo a fine and eloquent man, but on the other, it is thought that man's nature forces men to try to trick women.  

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.