MAMA. You making something inside me cry, son. Some awful pain inside me. WALTER. Don't cry, Mama. Understand. That white man is going to walk in that door able to write checks for more money than we ever had. It's important to him and I'm going to help him . . . I'm going to put on the show, Mama.

Q: Which themes does the excerpt most clearly convey?

A. Sometimes children never learn their lesson; life can often be painful and hard to bear.
B. Money is not the key to the American Dream; never do demeaning things to get what you want.
C. To conform to society, you must keep your individuality; the family must be kept together, no matter what.
D. One should never sacrifice one's dignity; to meet society's expectations, one must give up one's individuality.

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret