Read the excerpt from Act I of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: Is the day so young? Benvolio: But new struck nine.Romeo: Ah me! sad hours seem long.Was that my father that went hence so fast? Benvolio: It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that which having makes them short.

Benvolio says it has just struck nine, and Romeo responds, “Is the day so young?” He means, “Is it so early in the day?” Romeo’s next lines explain that his sadness makes the hours seem long. Choice A suggests beginning the day, which Romeo does not ask about.

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