1. Why was the city in partial blackout? 2. What was the young woman doing at the bus stop?

3. In spite of the wave of panic, why was the young woman not in the least nervous?

4. What was the slinking black shadow?

5. Why did the slinking shadow not disconcert the young woman?

6. Why was the young woman curious?

7. Describe the black man.

8. Which feature of the man did draw the attention of the young woman?

9. What was the difference between America and the West Indian island?

10. What did the man ask from the white lady? What was lady's reply?

11. Why was the lady not willing to give a light to the man?

12. In what way did the man accept the light?

13. Why was the man smoking the half of a cigarette?

14. Why did the lady throw the cigarette away?

15. Why did the man make the lady feel uncomfortable?

16. What does the man mean by "In this country there are only men and women"?

17. What did the lady do in the bus?

18. What did the man do when the lady boarded the bus?

19. What was the impact of the man's behaviour on the lady?

20. Why does the approach of the man intrigue the American lady?

21. Why does man's quietness disturb the lady more than rudeness would have done?

22. The American woman had a typical racist attitude in the story. Do you agree?

23. What was there in the young man that was challenging and disturbing?

24. What had been the basis of lady's 'supreme confidence'? How was the man able to shake it?

25. How do the references to cigarettes function to structure the story?

26. In what ways do the race, class and gender affect the balance of power between the two persons, in the story?

What effect does the narrative's point of view have on the reader's experience of the events? the reader is shown both the views of women's suffrage supporters and of its opponents. the reader receives a broad historical overview of the women's suffrage movement from an objective source. the reader learns about the women's suffrage movement from the standpoint of someone who is close to it but has not worked in it. the reader is allowed to share directly in the feelings of a leader of the women's suffrage movement.

Fortify is a verb that means “to protect and strengthen.” a fortifications is a that means something that protects.

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.