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kfurse

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Who is the mighty woman with a torch referenced in the second stanza of first poem?
 
  a. a sculpture of a large woman
  b. a symbol of people from all over the world
  c. an immigrant mother
  d. the Statue of Liberty

Question 2

In the poem The New Colossus, what is the purpose of the reference to the huddled masses yearning to be
  free?
 
  a. to show how many people want to come to America
  b. to make the point that some immigrants have in sufficient resources
  c. to express why many immigrants choose to come to America
  d. to express how some immigrants take advantage of the American system



yahahah24021

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Answer to Question 1

d. the Statue of Liberty

Answer to Question 2

c. to express why many immigrants choose to come to America



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