The doctor is angry at the narrator for faking his illness.
Explanation:
From the excerpt of "Homesickness", there is a dialogue between two people; a doctor and a patient, who is revealed to be his son and narrator. From the dialogue, the narrator is faking an illness and is anxious about what the doctor will tell his school as an excuse and the doctor replies that he would cover up for him.
The doctor is angry with the narrator for faking his illness to avoid school but agrees to cover for him by telling his school he has a severe case of a stomach infection.
Since there is no answer to the child's question and the child is in the North, the carousel operator may give the child a stern reply.
Explanation:
"Merry-Go-Round" is a poem written by Langston Hughes. The poem is centered on the theme of racial segregation due to Jim Crow's section law.
The law disabled the colored people to mix with the whites, and created a separate section, at the back for all blacks, whether be it a train or a bus. But the child in this poem, the speaker, ask the carousel operator questions <em>"Where to sit?", </em>as there is no back in the merry-go-round.
The carousel operator may give the child a stern reply because he is from the North.
The brothers’ ability to overcome difficulties to succeed as scholars.
Explanation:
The excerpt begins by informing us of the difficult personal problems and the meager financial support that the brothers faced from 1805 to 1812. It also highlights that, despite these problems, the brothers could prove themselves as innovative scholars in German philology. Therefore, that the author introduces is the brothers’ ability to overcome difficulties to succeed as scholars.