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Kikoku

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The text contains a quotation by Barack Obama's book, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. The main idea in this quotation is to explain:
 
  a. Past racial prejudice
  b. How interracial marriage was once a felony in the U.S.
  c. To describe the negative connotations that this word carried when his
  parents were married. d. The etymology of the word miscegenation.

Question 2

Word connotations are:
 
  a. All of these choices.
  b. The objective meaning of a word. c. Positive and negative emotions.
  d. The associations that a word can suggest or evoke.


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anoriega3

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Reply #1 on: Jul 15, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

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Kikoku

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Reply 2 on: Jul 15, 2018
Excellent

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