In langston hughes's "theme for english b," where and when the speaker lives makes the assignment
(a) humorous, because asking the speaker to write about himself is an exercise in absurdity.
(b) meaningless, because the speaker's teacher is a bigot who will not even bother to read his piece.
(c) simple, because the speaker is intelligent enough to attend columbia university, a prestigious school near harlem.
(d) difficult, because these things make the speaker question what is true about his own identity.

recent news about two years ago indicates that a polish forestry student by chance unearthed at a depth of about 40cm (16 inches), during digging in a damp polish forest he found a 13-page manuscript into a thermos flask.

greek jew marcel nadjari was a aischwitz slave who witnessed how the nazi's built big death chambers and crematoriums and told how he was forced to escort fellow jews to the gas chambers. he accounts on this manuscript how the nazi's disguised this chambers to look like showers. also, he describes this place as a process of extermination from the chambers to the trains arriving to take the bodies.

the correct answer would be:  

a. adverb phrase