This passage has a melancholic mood. You can tell this due to some specific key words: "dull", "dark", "soundless." They all have a negative connotation. The imagery of a lone rider in a dreary and dull country under the oppressive sky may clue you in that the overall passage has a sad tone to it. Even later in the passage the author states that the scene is melancholic.
The correct answer is A. This is the case of using comma before a coordinating conjunction <em>and</em> because it links two independent clauses. We can observe that there two parts of this full sentence and each part is independent from each other. Both of them have their own subject and verb. Therefore, we are using a comma before <em>and</em>.
Answer:
1.C) During the 1970s and 1980s, America looked back on a shameful chapter of her history: the World War II imprisonment of thousands of Japanese-Americans.
2.A) Synthesizes, thesis.
3.C) During World War II, fear of Japanese invasions led to Japanese Americans by the thousands being rounded up and taken to concentration camps in the United States.
4.C) Author's last name.
5.D) The page number of the source used.
6.A) Alphabeticly.
7.A) Citation.
Explanation:
what it means is that you need to see how they are similar so when they say make a connection when comparing and contrasting is to find the similarly.