Answer:
A. people have been spreading negative rumors about Gatsby's past.
Explanation:
When the narrator shows what the girl said about Gatsby, we can see that he is a controversial figure within the society that is inserted. Nobody knows much about him and with this mysterious past and the economic rise so fast that he presents, people start creating rumors and stories about him, many of these stories are negative, like the one that the girl heard.
With that, we can say that from the girl's speech, we can infer that people created negative rumors about Gatsby.
Diversity can negatively affect a group by the different opinions leading to arguments about who is correct and who is wrong but diversity can positively affect a group because when people are different we see their differences as in opinions or future or background and we can learn from that.
If the question refers to where a comma should be placed, then the answer is after "Caleb."
The sentence should go like this:
Trayvon, Julie, and Caleb, who are members of the drama club, are auditioning for the school musical on Wednesday.
In Chapter 4, Hurston recalls that "two young ladies just popped in" one afternoon when she was at school. She says that white people would often bring their friends, "who came down from the North," to visit the village school, because "a Negro school was something strange to them." We, therefore, assume that these two white ladies are from the North, visiting friends in Florida, and curious to see "a Negro school." However, these particular ladies are different because they arrive unannounced.
Hurston says that the two ladies both "had shiny hair, mostly brownish" and that one of them was "dressed all over in black and white." However, she was most attracted by and curious about their fingers, which she describes as "long and thin, and very white." Hurston reads for the two ladies, and they are very impressed.
The ladies, Mrs. Johnstone and Miss Hurd, invite Hurston (or Zora, as I'm sure she would have been known to them), to the hotel they are staying at and give her "strange things, like stuffed dates and preserved ginger." The ladies then have their picture taken with Zora, and they give her one more present, a cylinder stuffed with "One hundred goldy-new pennies." The next day, more presents begin to arrive, including "an Episcopal hymn-book bound in white leather," "a copy of The Swiss Family Robinson," and, finally, "a huge box packed with clothes and books."
The two ladies return to Minnesota about a month later, and we hear no more about them. We can only assume that they were two ladies visiting friends in Florida, curious to look around "a Negro school," who became particularly fond of Zora after hearing her read.
