I’m presuming the last one is supposed to be bias, but that’s the one that has a negative connotation to it.
Barren seems like the best work for stark.
The correct answer is “it’s” because it combines it is
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The conflict in this story is racism and the author clarified this conflict by using racist words such as “Negro”, “Mulatto”: “When you say brown, do you mean he is a Negro?”, “So you're mixed?, You are a mulatto!”
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