What type of outside source does MacGregor use in this
excerpt?

a college textbook
a newspaper article
a historical letter
a Japanese website

there is no passage.

plagiarism can get you expelled from your course, and college, or university. plagiarism can result in legal action like fines and penalties etc.

i also think it is d (sorry if it's not)

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.