1. when preparing for a presentation, what should you know? a. your purpose b. your audience c. your situation d. all of the above

Select the correct answer. what is the purpose of creating an outline for a research paper? a. to assess the validity of research sources ob. to think up topic ideas oc. to organize researched information od. to estimate the word count of the paper

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.

One conclusion that a reader might draw from the excerpt from "there's a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella" is that the man with the umbrella is persistent in his mission. provide two details from the text to support this conclusion.