Ing questions, Telephone Conversation choose the best answer or respond m complete sen 1.
PART A: Which statement identifies the main theme of the poem?
A. Bringing attention to racial discrimination can expose and highlight its absurdity.
B. People don't intend to be prejudiced when they make judgements about others
based on their appearance.
C.
A person shouldn't challenge someone who attempts to make decisions based
on appearance.
D.
Prejudice takes place in many different places and at different levels, but all are
equally harmful.
2.
PART B: Which detail from the poem best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "But self-confession. 'Madam,'l warned, /'l hate a wasted journey - I am
African." (Lines 4-5)
B. "By ill-mannered silence, surrender / Pushed dumbfounded to beg
simplification." (Lines 15-16)
C. "Her assent was clinical, crushing in its light / Impersonality. Rapidly, wave-length
adjusted" (Lines 20-21)
D. "The rest of me. Palm of my hand, soles of my feet / Are a peroxide blond.
Friction, caused" (Lines 29-30)

It is much safer to be feared than loved. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty . . but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. . that it is true his other virtues would not have been sufficient for him may be proved by the case of scipio, that most excellent man . . his army rebelled in spain; this arose from nothing but his too great forbearance, which gave his soldiers more license than is consistent with military discipline. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli machiavelli claims that “it is much safer to be feared than loved.” which type of evidence does machiavelli use to support his claim? answer : logical how does the author’s use of this evidence create meaning for the reader? answer : by using a historical event to prove the claim