Part A What main, or most important, claim does the writer attempt to prove
in the passage?
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A. The city should provide a skate park for youngsters.
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B. The old band shell is not a convenient location for a new
skate park.
C. The city should encourage safe behavior among youngsters.
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D. The city should build a skate park at the fountain, not at the
band shell.
case
Part B
Click on the highlighted quotation from the passage in which the writer

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.