<span>McCourt is using allusion</span>
The New Deal Programs supported artists and writers in the 1930s by giving them money.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal cultural programs marked the U.S. government's first big, direct investment in cultural development.
<span>He it was who fought his way through the white water</span>
I am pretty sure that the main idea of the Interview with Marielle Tsukamoto was Japanese American internment. During the whole interview Marielle Tsukamoto tells about how she spent her time in an internment camp, shares her ideas about American citizens, her feelings of leaving lovely place, mentioned all her saddest memories and happy moments and praises her mother, I recommend you to read this article, it’s not a big one.
All of the above for question 3 and for 6 i think its the first 3