Question

tales of the jazz age f. scott fitzgerald my last flappers the jelly - bean. 1 jim powell was a jelly - bean. much as i desire to make him an appealing character, i feel that it would be unscrupulous to deceive you on that point. he was a bred - in - the - bone, dyed - in - the - wool, ninety - nine three - quarters per cent jelly - bean and he grew lazily all during jelly - bean season, which is every season, down in the land of the jelly - beans well below the mason - dixon line. 2 now if you call a memphis man a jelly - bean he will quite possibly pull a long sinewy rope from his hip pocket and hang you to a convenient telegraph - pole. if you call a new orleans man a jelly - bean he will probably grin and ask you who is taking your girl to the mardi gras ball. the particular jelly - bean patch which produced the protagonist of this history lies somewhere between the two - a little city of forty thousand that has dozed sleepily for forty thousand years in southern georgia occasionally stirring in its slumbers and muttering something about a war that took place sometime, somewhere, and that everyone else has forgotten long ago. according to the second and third paragraphs, which event from americas history still preoccupies people from jims native region? a the revolutionary war b the civil war c mardi gras d world war ii

Explanation:

The text mentions Jim Powell is from below the Mason - Dixon line (southern region). The Civil War is a historically significant event for the southern US and is likely to still preoccupy people from that region. Mardi Gras is a festival, not a historical event that preoccupies in the same way. The Revolutionary War and World War II are not as region - specific in terms of preoccupation as the Civil War for the southern region.

Answer:

B. The Civil War