A DEAD WOMAN'S SECRET 5. PART A: What does the word "desolate" mean as used in paragraph 15?
A: united and stronger
B: confused and helpless
C: depressed and lonely
D: cold and unemotional

6. PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
A: "And they loved her as they had never before loved her." (Paragraph 15)
B: "how strongly they had been attached to her" (Paragraph 15)
C: "She had been their mainstay, their guide" (Paragraph 16)
D: "They would hencefort be solitary, isolated" (Paragraph 16)

5. Part A: C.

5. Part B: D.

Explanation:

eager to consume a lot of food? insatiable appetite?

explanation:

the major theme of langston hughes’s montages of a dream deferred is the deferred, or delayed, american dream of african americans. the poem is about how african americans failed to achieve their goals in time:

this year, maybe, do you think i can graduate?

i’m already two years late.dropped out six months when i was seven,

a year when i was eleven,

then got put back when we come north.

to get through high high school at twenty's kind of late–

but maybe this year i can graduate.

the poem also depicts how african americans had to keep postponing their needs with a hope that someday they would be able to obtain what they desired:

maybe now i can have that white enamel stove

i dreamed about when we first fell in love

eighteen years ago.

but you know,

rooming and everything

then kids,

cold-water flat and all that.

but now my daughter’s married

and my boy's most grown–

quit school to work

and where we're moving

there ain't no stove–

maybe i can buy that white enamel stove!

however, despite their deferred dreams, the poem shows the refusal of african americans to give up easily and let go of their dreams of a better life. their dreams may have been delayed, but they did not lose hope.

is the answer