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)