Read the excerpt from act i, scene i of romeo and juliet. benvolio: groan! why, no; but sadly tell me who. romeo: bid a sick man in sadness make his will; ah! word ill urg’d to one that is so ill. 195 in sadness, cousin, i do love a woman. what is the cause of romeo’s despair? romeo has wronged benvolio. romeo misses his friends and family. romeo wants to fight the capulets. romeo is in love with a woman.

The answer is D. Romeo is in love with a woman.

The fourth op´tion

Explanation:

In this excerpt of the play, Romeo makes his first appearance by showing a sentiment of sadness. This state in despair is a reflection of Romeo's impossibility to have a reciprocal love. "Out of her favour where I am in love", says the young man. Benvolio, his friend, is in the need of knowing who is causing all this pain to Romeo and enquiries who the woman is. In the lines provided the audience is informed that the cause of Romeo's despair is his being in love with a woman.

they both lost a woman they loved named lenore

they believed they interracted with a talking raven

they became orphaned at a young age.