D, one that is left up to interpretation.
Based on the given passage above, when Bertie says he feels like a "badly wrapped brown-paper parcel" he means that he feels tired and out of sorts. Therefore, the correct answer of the given question above would be the first option: tired and out of sorts.
The speaker use the words they and we as if he was giving a speech to young black men. They is refering to the white men we is refering to the black men.
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Answer:
The correct answer is <u>A</u>: He has to whitewash a fence and does not want to.
Explanation:
One morning, Aunt Polly asks Tom to whitewash a fence. Tom does not want to do it, and he tries to convince Jim to do it instead of him when Aunt Polly arrives and says Tom has to do it by himself. However, Tom manages to convince another boy, Ben Rogers, to do it instead of him. Ben accepts and gives Tom an apple in exchange because Tom convinced him that whitewashing a fence is a task only for privileged boys.
By the end of the day, the fence is whitewashed and Tom gets a lot of different things from each boy who tried to whitewash a fence.
