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Question 47 • DCSS American Literature 11 CR 24-25

Read the excerpt from Richard Wright’s Black Boy.The hunger I had known before this had been no grim, hostile stranger; it had been a normal hunger that had made me beg constantly for bread, and when I ate a crust or two I was satisfied. But this new hunger baffled me, scared me, and made me angry and insistent.Which best describes the new type of hunger the narrator experiences?

Answer
A
It is aggressive, and it terrorizes him.
B
It is a strange experience, and it confuses him.
C
It is an ordinary type of hunger he has felt before.
D
It is routine to him, but he knows it is temporary.
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