Read this example of a student’s draft. When Alice encounters the flowers in the garden, she is surprised by their ability. Moreover, Lewis Carroll writes that she is shocked by the flowers’ harsh criticism of her. She does her best to appeal to her new companions by asking, "How is it you can all talk so nicely?” with the hope of getting "into a better temper by a compliment.”

Which idea is supported with the example and quotation in this analysis?

Alice tends to say offensive things to the people in the Looking-Glass land.
Alice has a difficult time communicating with the other characters in the book.
Most of the characters Alice meets in Looking-Glass land are quite rude.
The flowers of the garden prefer being left alone to talking to Alice.

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