The correct answer is C. The evidence textual offers the information to build the main idea. It also means that they are connected but they are different. The main idea has no sense without textual evidence. So, The main idea became the main idea because of the lack of textual evidence or the lack of pieces of information for that.
To indicate that they are nouns
It's D your choice as commas, split an explanation while the conjunction 'but' links two sentences. No need to separate them by using a semicolon.
It would be letter a, since an interrogative sentence is question. Since the first answer is the only one with a question mark, the answer is a.
The poem refers to the difficulties that black people have living in America, how he feels that his time is gonna come but not quite yet. That he's often pushed to the back not to be seen or heard.
The correct answer is option A, America should celebrate all ethnic groups as equal.