Question

Using the text below, select the best summary from the answer choices.

For fifteen years I have resided in Washington, and while it was far from being a paradise for colored people when I first touched these shores it has been doing its level best ever since to make conditions for us intolerable. As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, a stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head. Unless I happened to know colored people who live here or ran across a chance acquaintance who could recommend a colored boarding-house to me, I should be obliged to spend the entire night wandering about.

-Mary E. Church Terrell, "What it Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States"
speech, October 10, 1906

A. Inequality
B. Conditions for Black Americans are so dire there is no place to stay.
C. Discrimination
D. Conditions for Black Americans weren't that great, but they've gotten worse.

Answer 1

The best summary from the answer choices is "Conditions for Black Americans weren't that great, but they've gotten worse," as stated in option D.

What is a summary?

A summary is a shorter version of a text containing only its most important ideas. Let's analyze the text provided in the question and list the most important topics found in it so that we can choose the best summary:

• The author says conditions for black people were already bad in Washington.

• She then says such conditions got even worse.

• She explains she has no place to stay because of her being African American.

After analyzing the topics above, we can conclude that the best summary is found in option D. "Conditions for Black Americans weren't that great, but they've gotten worse." Here, all that is most important in the text is mentioned, but in a shorter, briefer manner.

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