|Question 12Verbal

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Cane is a novel by Jean Toomer. In the novel, Toomer mentions a road in rural Georgia called Dixie Pike and describes it as having a deep connection to a faraway place, writing, _____
Which quotation from Cane most effectively illustrates the claim?
"If it were dusk, then [Fern's eyes would] wait for the search-light of the evening train which you could see miles up the track before it flared across the Dixie Pike, close to her home."
A
"And when the wind is from the South, soil of my homeland falls like a fertile shower upon the lean streets of [Washington, DC]."
B
"The Dixie Pike has grown from a goat path in Africa."
C
"I leave the men around the stove to follow [Carma] with my eyes down the red dust road."
D