Read the excerpt from Pink and Say. “Least you got to carry. In the Forty-eighth, we couldn’t have guns at first. We fought with sticks and hammers and sledges. Can you imagine not trustin’ us with our own fight?” I couldn’t imagine such a thing. “Then when they did finally give us muskets, they were from the Mexican-American War. Those muskets jammed and misfired!” Why does the author most likely include this excerpt in the story? A. Like Say, she finds it wrong that African Americans were sent into battle without working weapons.

B. She feels readers should be aware of African Americans’ history of service fighting in American wars.

C. Like Pink, she is grateful that African American soldiers were finally given arms to defend themselves with.

D. She wants readers to understand that African Americans were the most skilled troops to fight in the war.

A. Like Say, she finds it wrong that African Americans were sent into battle without working weapons.

Explanation:

because you are a boy

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.