The sentence - The ranchers called in the sheriff to settle the dispute - is written in the active voice.
The passive voice would be - The sheriff was called by the ranchers to settle the dispute.
In lines 29-34 Shylock gives his reason.
"Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which your prophet, the Nazarrite, conjured the devil onto! I will buy with you, sell with you talk with you, walk with you and so following; but I will not eat with you, nor pray with you."
Shylock's reasons are to do with his own religious beliefs.
Is this from the book Julius Caesar? if it is he believes it is hope and justice that will unite them
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Where's Activity 1? Can you attach an image or something?