Answer:
The option that best describes how Anaya effectively uses rhetoric in the excerpt to convince readers that his conclusion is justified is:
B) Anaya establishes his credibility as a published Chicano author by discussing his career experience.
Explanation:
Rhetoric concerns the use of devices and strategies to convince the audience of your opinion or perspective. A commonly efficient way to do so is by establishing your own credibility concerning the subject. That is what Anaya is doing in this excerpt. He gets to talk about language and culture in American literature, and be taken seriously while doing it, due to his credibility as a published Chicano author. His life and career are devoted and dependent on this subject, which gives him some sort of authority to discuss it.
The last option seems to be the correct answer: Mrs. Linde resolves the conflict by committing to a new life with Krogstad, which develops the theme that new beginnings are always possible.
Krogstad is blackmailing Mrs. Linde's friend, Nora Helmer. He works at the same bank as Nora's husband and agreed to lend Nora some money. She needed the money to pay for a trip to Italy, where her husband recovered from a disease. Nora, however, forged her own father's signature to be able to borrow the money. Nora's husband means to fire Krogstad, so he is blackmailing her into convincing her husband to not do so.
In Act 3 of the play, it is revealed that Mrs. Linde and Krogstad have had a romantic relationship before. They agree to start a new life together. Mrs. Linde asks Krogstad to stop blackmailing Nora, but she also tells Nora to tell her husband the truth. Krogstad agrees to that, which mean Mrs. Linde resolves the conflict developed in the play and, by starting a new life with Krogstad, the theme that new beginnings are possible is developed.
