14. The title of this section of the novel is “The Sieve and the Sand." "Sieve” is another word for strainer or colander. In this story, what does the sieve symbolically represent? What does
the sand represent?

In the sentence above, which verb is the irregular verb? a. laid b. warmed c. removed d. walked

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that.which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious.b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world.c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love.d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.

How did rick respond to this conflict