A firefighter climbed up to the middle of a ladder to see if there was any fire on the second floor of a building and there was none; he then climbed up 10 more steps and saw some smoke so he came back down 14 steps and waited for 5 seconds to check his equipment. He then climbed 20 steps all the way to the top of the ladder and got off on the roof. How many steps are there on the ladder?

In order really to hate white people, one has to blot so much out of the mind — and the heart — that this hatred itself becomes an exhausting and self-destructive pose. but this does not mean, on the other hand, that love comes easily: the white world is too powerful, too complacent, too ready with gratuitous humiliation, and, above all, too ignorant and too innocent for that.which sentence best explains how the use of parallelism in the excerpt supports baldwin's purpose? a. it proves baldwin's central idea by highlighting the obvious.b. it emphasizes the problems that prevent one from loving the white world.c. it explains why the white world is unable to replace hate with love.d. it enumerates the many ways of dealing with the white world.