What does the author most suggest about her background in the first two paragraphs of the essay, “a four-hundred-year-old woman”? a)as a young girl, her life was filled with viewpoints that were  in direct opposition to one another. b)she received an education that gave her little information about her own culture. c)her family believed in superstitions that would limit her life as she grew older. d)as a child, she understood the necessity of learning about different cultures because she was expected to emigrate.

Explain how dave’s search for adulthood in ,the man who was almost a man” reflects the africa-american desire to escape the poverty of the south at the time the story was written.

Read the excerpt from “man listening to disc.” to tommy potter for taking the time to join us on this breezy afternoon with his most unwieldy bass and to the esteemed arthur taylor who is somehow managing to navigate this crowd with his cumbersome drums. and i bow deeply to thelonious monk for figuring out a way to motorize—or whatever—his huge piano so he could be with us today. which of the following additional features would best enhance the reader’s understanding of this excerpt? a diagram showing the narrator’s route through the city a visual simulation of the man walking down the street audio samples of music by the specified musicians textbook chapters on the history of jazz musicians

Which of the following events of the story actual occurs first in the sequence of events