CLOSE READ: Analyze Craft and Structure Identify the choice that best answers the question.
The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.
Part A "On Seeing England for the First Time" was written about 150 years after Britain ended slavery in the Americas.
How does this fact affect the author's perspective regarding England?
Part B Which of the following sentences from the essay best supports the answer to Part A?
Part A She is conflicted because she loves England in spite of its history with the slave trade.
Ob Part A She honors the English culture for abolishing slavery long before the United States did the same.
c Part A She resents the English attitude that the slave trade is in the past and therefore should not be remembered.
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Part A She acknowledges that she, unlike most Antiguans, wants to focus on England's role in the future, not in the past.
e Part B If now as I speak of all this I give the impression of someone on the outside looking in, nose pressed up against a glass
window, that is wrong
Of Part B The reality of my life was conquests, subjugation, humiliation, enforced amnesia. I was forced to forget.
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Part B i had seen the governor general at the public grounds at a ceremony celebrating the Queen's birthday.
0 h Part B That idea Christopher Columbus had was more powerful than the reality he met, and so the reality he met died.
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