Going to college means making choices, some of which bring criticism. My neighbors, for example, hate my sickly, brown lawn sandwiched between their lush, green, spotless plots of earth, which would be the envy of any football
field. Just walking to my mailbox can be an awful reminder of how pitiful my lawn looks when I receive an unforgiving
scowl from one of the groundskeepers who live on either side of me. It is embarrassing to have such a colorless lawn,
but it will have to wait because I want more out of life than a half-acre of green turf. Right now my time and money are
tied up in college courses instead of fertilizer and weed killer.
5. Based upon the paragraph, we can infer that the author
a. does not tend his own lawn because he enjoys annoying his neighbors.
b. receives a lot of mail.
c. is willing to make sacrifices for his college education.
d. has neighbors who care little about the appearance of their property

The story is about a postmaster who is trying to adapt to the new life in the village of ulapur. in what way is the postmaster's life different from his life in urban calcutta?

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

The significant structural shift that happens between chapters 21 and 22 is