Read this excerpt from The Golem. PEARL

You made this mess. The least you could do is get the water to clean it up.

The golem takes a step toward her. Pearl stifles a little shriek; she is more surprised than scared.

PEARL

What's this about? What do you want?

The golem stretches out his arm toward the bucket.

PEARL

Really? You'll get the water from the stream? . . . All right, then. But please be quick about it.

The golem takes her bucket, plus another, and moves stiffly but quickly to the door and leaves. Pearl smiles.

PEARL

It may not be such a bad thing to have a golem around the house after all.

Pearl’s view of the golem changes. She now thinks he is

slightly frightening but useful.
slightly unintelligent but pleasant.
slightly frightening but harmless.
slightly ugly but well-meaning.
Mark this and return

Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 3, of julius caesar. cassius. am i not stayed for? tell me. cinna. yes, you are. o cassius, if you could but win the noble brutus to our party— cassius. be you content. good cinna, take this paper and look you lay it in the praetor’s chair, where brutus may but find it. and throw this in at his window. set this up with wax upon old brutus’ statue. all this done, repair to pompey’s porch, where you shall find us. is decius brutus and trebonius there? cinna. all but metellus cimber, and he’s gone to seek you at your house. well, i will hie, and so bestow these papers as you bade me. cassius. that done, repair to pompey’s theatre. what is cassius’s motivation for sending brutus the letter? cassius wants to make sure that cinna is on his side. cassius wants to reassure cinna that brutus will follow them. cassius wants to sway brutus to kill caesar. cassius wants to alert brutus about the conspiracy against him.

Whats the best lie you told and got away with?

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?