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QuizMultiple Choice

James Baldwin's Take on the Effects of Prejudice

Question 10 • DBN LA 6-CR

Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.That bleakly memorable morning I hated the unbelievable streets and the Negroes and whites who had, equally, made them that way. But I knew that it was folly, as my father would have said, this bitterness was folly. Which word creates the transition between the stated problem and its emerging solution?

Answer
A
who
B
but
C
as
D
this

Explanation

The problem is the narrator’s hatred and bitterness toward the streets and the people who shaped them. “But” signals a shift: although he feels bitter, he recognizes that the bitterness is folly. So the word “but” creates the transition toward the emerging solution.

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