Read the passage.
from gulliver’s travels by jonathan swift this, however, is thought to be a mere strain upon the text, for the words are these: that all true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end; and which is the convenient end, seems, in my humble opinion, to be left to every man’s conscience, or at least in the power of the chief magistrate to determine.
what behavior is swift satirizing in this excerpt from gulliver’s travels?
a. the reasons people choose to enact new religious beliefs
b. the irrationality of people who hate each other because of religious differences
c. the logic people use to determine which variant of religion to practice
d. the foolishness of people who worship in ways that are different from each other

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky