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Directions: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.

My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O ! my soul is white;
White as an angel is the English child :
But I am black as if bereav’d of light.

My mother taught me underneath a tree
And sitting down before the heat of day,
She took me on her lap and kissed me,
And pointing to the east began to say.

Look on the rising sun : there God does live
And gives his light, and gives his heat away.
And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive
Comfort in morning joy in the noonday.

And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of love,
And these black bodies and this sun-burnt face
Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

'The Little Black Boy' was born in—

Options

A

the desert wastes

B

the servants' house

C

the southern wild

D

the east coast

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Correct Answer :

Option C

the southern wild

Solution :

The correct answer is the southern wild.


Step-by-step Explanation:

1. Refer to the first line of the extract given in the question:

"My mother bore me in the southern wild,"


2. The word "bore" here refers to birth. Therefore, the speaker ('The Little Black Boy') states explicitly that he was born in "the southern wild".


3. Thus, matching this directly with the given choices, the correct option is the southern wild.

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