Select all the correct answers. The following excerpt from Anton Chekhov's The Proposal is a monologue. Which two statements can best help to distinguish this excerpt as a monologue? LOMOV: It's cold . . . I'm trembling all over, just as if I'd got an examination before me. The great thing is, I must have my mind made up. If I give myself time to think, to hesitate, to talk a lot, to look for an ideal, or for real love, then I'll never get married. . . . Brr! . . . It's cold! Natalya Stepanovna is an excellent housekeeper, not bad-looking, well-educated. . . .What more do I want? But I'm getting a noise in my ears from excitement. [Drinks] And it's impossible for me not to marry. . . . In the first place, I'm already 35—a critical age, so to speak. In the second place, I ought to lead a quiet and regular life. . . .I suffer from palpitations, I'm excitable and always getting awfully upset. . . .At this very moment my lips are trembling, and there's a twitch in my right eyebrow. . . . But the very worst of all is the way I sleep. I no sooner get into bed and begin to go off when suddenly something in my left side—gives a pull, and I can feel it in my shoulder and head. . . . I jump up like a lunatic, walk about a bit, and lie down again, but as soon as I begin to get off to sleep there's another pull! And this may happen twenty times. . . . It contains stage directions. It is spoken by a single character. It reveals Lomov’s personal thoughts. It develops Natalya’s character. NextReset

These are the two statements that best describe the reasons why we can conclude that this excerpt is a monologue. In this excerpt, we see that Lomov talks about himself. He, however, also reveals his private thoughts in ways that other characters would never be able to do. Moreover, Lomov is the only character who actually speaks in this passage.