The tiny people had an interesting way of promoting people within the government. This was done not by loyalty or hard work, but by:

O Running the fastest through the village

O Leaping or Creeping

O Winning at Hide & Seek

O Preparing the best food

- "the answers are a and b.  

when cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the racial injustices present in american society. as these injustices have changed over time, the american identity  has also shifted. those changes are, in turn, reflected in american literature."

pulling in the reader is important

i could of w this question but i don't see a " passage " .

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sorry ! ):

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.