Which of the following lines from mark antony's speech in julius caesar best illustrates pathos? a. i speak not to disprove what brutus spoke, / but here i am to speak what i do know. b. here under leave of brutus and the rest— / for brutus is an honourable man; / so are they all, all honourable men— c. when that the poor have cried, caesar hath wept: / ambition should have been made of sterner stuff. d. and brutus is an honourable man. / you all did see that on the lupercal / i thrice presented him a kingly crown.

The answer is: C. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: / Ambition should have been made of sterner stuff.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

answer: a mother fears that the poor lighting poses a danger to the children who play there.