Correct Answer: D. Western Highlands

Correct Answer: D. goodwill

Correct Answer: A. a rise in the demand for the commodity

Correct Answer: A. thunder

Explanation

Bigger leaves home that fateful morning to avoid his mother's incessant nagging about the family's poor living condition and his not able to be of any help. She warns him against his continued involvement with the gang and prophesies doom for him if he disregards her warning. He heads for the pool room where he feels more at ease. He meets Gus, a member of the gang at the entrance and they drift into a conversation.

Their conversation reveals much about the living conditions of the black people. It exposes their forced segregated lives, theft exclusion from participation in the political, military and commercial life of white America, as well as their bottled up frustration which stir up anger in some of them.

We learn, for instance, that blacks live under very poor conditions. As Bigger and Gus observe and 3 appreciate nature, i.e., the warm day, both reflect on the poor heating system in their homes. Though their landlords 'don't give much heat, they always demand r rent. They reflect also on their segregated lives, which bother them a lot. Bigger observes that whites live "over across the line, over there on Cottage Grove Avenue". Explaining the source of their bitterness, e he intones: "We live here, and they live there, we black and they white. They get things and we ain't. They do things and we can't." Accounting for his feeling, he says. " I feel like I'm on the outside of the world peeping in through a knot-hole in the fence

Bigger and Gus refer also to the power structure in American society, from the presidency to the military, business and commerce. Their simulation of a telephone conversation between the president of the United States and his secretary of state on the one hand, and J.P. Morgan, a business mogul and someone else is also revealing. It is revealed that the president's secretary of state is more ready to attend a cabinet meeting about " the niggers raising sand all over the country" than one involving Germans. And J.P. Morgan is prepared to "sell twenty thousand shares of US steel, a mind-boggling figure. That kinds of business transaction is way beyond blacks to do. These show the extent to which whites suppress to put blacks in their place.

Blacks are also prevented from aspiring to do anything worthwhile, "They get the chance to do everything", but " they don't let us do anything." Whereas the whites, like the pigeon, can go wherever they want, the blacks are restricted in their movements.

The conversation reveals two contrasting attitude of the blacks towards their situation in the novel. Some blacks, like Gus, are resigned to their fate. Others, like Bigger, breed anger in themselves against the system.

Thus, the conversation gives a microscopic view of black life in the novel.

Correct Answer: C. begun / up

Correct Answer: C. the latter can be invoked against evil

Correct Answer: D. National Electric Power authority

Correct Answer: A. its holders receive interest

Explanation

In corporate finance, a debenture is a medium- to long-term debt instrument used by large companies to borrow money, at a fixed rate of interest. The legal term debenture originally referred to a document that either creates a debt or acknowledges it.

A debenture is thus like a certificate of loan or a loan bond evidencing the fact that the company is liable to pay a specified amount with interest and although the money raised by the debentures becomes a part of the company's capital structure, it does not become share capital.

Correct Answer: D. isomeric