Question

central ideas quick check
\students give hope in face of anti-lgbtq rights laws\
by douglas...
passage content: ...
use the passage to answer the question
which excerpt alludes to a central idea of the passage, experiencing diversity leads to greater tolerance?
(1 point)
○ \for now, i feel like quentin compson from william faulkner’s absalom, absalom!, who, when asked why do you hate the south?...\
○ \my experience for the first 15 years of my life in mississippi was very much limited to the company of people who looked and lived just like me.\
○ \the students i teach are infinitely more worldly wise and accepting of differences than i was at their age.\
○ \after 24 years in mississippi and six in alabama, i’m moving to ohio to teach at a boarding school.\

Explanation:

To determine which excerpt alludes to the central idea "experiencing diversity leads to greater tolerance", we analyze each option:

• Option 1: Compares the author to a literary character's feelings about the South, not about diversity and tolerance.
• Option 2: Describes the author's limited early experience with diversity, not the result of experiencing diversity.
• Option 3: States that the students the author teaches are "infinitely more worldly wise and accepting of differences" than the author was at their age. This shows that the students, who likely have more exposure to diversity (given the school's diverse environment), are more tolerant, aligning with the central idea.
• Option 4: Only mentions the author's move, not related to diversity or tolerance.

Answer:

C. "the students I teach are infinitely more worldly wise and accepting of differences than I was at their age"