• Which of the following best describes the historical context behind Katherine Mansfield's story "The Daughters of the Late Colonel"?
A. Families in Mansfield's time were becoming less stable; increasing
numbers of young adults were moving away from their parents.
B. Women in Mansfield's time were given few opportunities outside
of marriage; they lived lives that paled in comparison to the lives.
of men.
c. Women in Mansfield's time had gained radical new freedoms that
allowed them to live in any manner they chose.
D. The military in Mansfield's time had just begun to allow women to
join their ranks, against the wishes of the older generatimas.

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.