Read this excerpt from We Beat the Street

"Hassan and Ahi are going to Howard University in D. C." Rameck commented, "but their folks have a little
cash." He fell silent.
"I think it would be cool to go into business, "Sampson said, "You know, become an entrepreneur and own some big
company " He sounded a little vague.
"What kind of business is there around here except for drugs and crime?" George asked bitterly
"Show business!" Rameck told him "We can be rap stars!"
"Yeah, right. You need money even to do that," Sampson told him
Sampson drove the other two home then, their hopes and dreams left in the starlight

What causes the friends to believe that their dreams are too difficult to achieve?
A- their lack of talent
B- their lack of success
C- their lack of money
D- their lack of determination

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.