The answer is B) white children’s and slave children were treated differently
"or press an ear against its hive,"
I'm assuming in this poem Billy Collins is comparing the act of reading a poem to the act of listening for the sound of honeybees but since it isn't mentioned it would be an "implied metaphor" which is comparing two unlike things without mentioning one of them. Hope this helps.
The disease affected children in the United States all of Salk's life.
Answer:
D
Explanation:
<em>Before</em><em> </em><em>I</em><em> </em><em>could</em><em> </em><em>answer</em>, he kept talking.
The narrator did not get the chance to talk. No dialogue from the narrator's point of view is mentioned. Therefore, <em>before</em><em> </em><em>I</em><em> </em><em>could</em><em> </em><em>answer</em><em> </em>is the best transition that connects the ideas in the passage.