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The following ; text is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston 's 1928 essay,How It Feels to Be Colored Me. [In general,]I feel like a brown bag of miscellany propped against a wall. Against a wall in company with other bags white. red and yellow.Pour out the contents, and there is discovered a jumble of small things priceless and worthless [Imagine:] In your hand is the brown bag . On the ground before you is the jumble it held __ so much like the jumble in the bags, could they be emptied , that all might be dumped in a single heap and the bags refilled without altering the content of any greatly. A bit of colored glass more or less would not matter. Perhaps that is how the Great Stuffer of Bags filled them in the first place-who knows? Which choice best states the main idea of the text? Elimination Tool Select one answer A people. The author doesn't want to compare herself to other B The author doesn't think she has much value as a person. C The author's own essence is much like that of anyone's. D The author's belief is that a divine being is probably a bag, too.
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C The author's own essence is much like that of anyone's.