Maggie has just read a soliloquy in which the play’s antagonist challenges the gods with the following words: “oh, gods, you cannot stop me now! no force of nature can halt my plan already in progress. tonight, indeed, the king shall propose to irnesta, although he knows not that her allegiance is already sworn to me. ha! and then, when that weak and softhearted king has pledged his love to a serpent in disguise, i shall finally see my moment of sweet revenge! ” what can maggie learn from the antagonist’s words?
a. that the antagonist worships and honors the gods and their laws.
b. that the antagonist secretly admires the king.
c. that irnesta is really a horse in disguise.
d. that the antagonist feels that in the past he was wronged by the king.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky