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Which best describes the setting of Maya Angelou’s autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

a nineteenth-century plantation

a large, segregated city in the 1920s

a small Southern town in the 1940s

a household torn by conflict in the 1960s


In W.G. Wetherell’s short story “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant,” the narrator is torn between pursuing a fish and continuing his date with Sheila. What type of conflict is shown here?

man vs. nature

man vs. man

man vs. family

man vs. himself