Read the excerpt from black boy. a quarter of a century was to elapse between the time when i saw my father sitting with the strange woman and the time when i was to see him again, standing alone upon the red clay of a mississippi plantation, a sharecropper, clad in ragged overalls, holding a muddy in his gnarled, veined hands—a quarter of a century during which my mind and consciousness had become so greatly and violently altered that when i tried to talk to him i realized that, though ties of blood made us kin, though i could see a shadow of my face in his face, though there was an echo of my voice in his voice, we were forever strangers, speaking a different language, living on vastly distant planes of reality. which best explains wright’s assertion that he and his father “were forever strangers”? wright is stating that he is emotionally disconnected from his father. wright is stating that he has no desire to know his father. wright is stating that he does not physically resemble his father. wright is stating that he regrets his connection to his father.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. which choice best describes the conflict in this poem? the winds are rocking the boat. a man is thrown into the sea. a woman doesn’t want to let go of her dead lover. someone is crying in the darkness.

Review questions what were the four stated goals of operation reinhard and how were these implemented? how did treblinka, sobibor, and belzec differ from other concentration camps built earlier? how did the nazi party maintain secrecy regarding the final solution? why was the madagascar plan not used? why were some individuals, including wwi veterans, to be spared the final solution?

Agood thesis is very specific. it is not just a general statement. select the best answer from the choices provided t f