Part A The author of “Romeo and Juliet Is a Terrible Play” criticizes a stage production of Shakespeare’s play because it “features a 36-year-old actor and a 26-year-old actress.” Which best explains the reason she objects to the actors’ ages? A. She thinks grownup actors are less popular than teens with the audience. B. She thinks playing teenage characters makes the actors look less talented. C. She thinks the actors are too old to be believable as romantic leads. D. She thinks it’s inappropriate to cast adults in these particular roles. Part B Which of the following quotations from the essay best supports the answer to Part A? A. And as much as I want to see more interracial couples in pop culture and more diverse casts on stage and screen, I don’t want to see them cast in material that is so horribly depressing. B. Maybe this works on the page, when we’re not forced to watch actors and actresses who are clearly in their 20s and 30s behave like early teenagers. C. But even then, having the two lovers kill themselves through a series of misunderstandings doesn’t translate well in a setting that takes any sort of modern communications for granted. D. But beyond that, the vision of Romeo and Juliet’s deaths uniting their families is an adolescent fantasy of death solving all problems, a “won’t they miss me when I’m gone” pout.