Read the passage from sugar changed the world. the diamond and the house: two family treasures, two parts of the story of sugar. we realized that our two family stories—marina's great-grandparents, brought to guyana to replace slaves, and marc's aunt's grandfather, to refine an alternative to that same sugar—were just the beginning of a much larger story about a remarkable substance. it is a story of the movement of millions of people, of fortunes made and lost, of brutality and delight—all because of tiny crystals stirred into our coffee, twirled on top of a cake. sugar, we began to see, changed the world. what is the purpose of this passage? a) to explain who marina and marc are b) to link the authors’ families to sugar c) to explore the history of guyana d) to show what sugar is used for

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here?