Question

Read the excerpt from My Story.

More of us rode the buses than Caucasians did, because more whites could afford cars. It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people.

How is this excerpt structured?

A) cause and effect
B) chronology
C) problem and solution
D) answer

Answer 1

A. Cause and effect

If you read the first two lines you can easily make out how this excerpt has been structured. In the first two lines itself, it tells us that the whites are comparatively richer and that is why they can afford cars whereas those of the narrator's kind chose buses. This narrative is structured in cause and effect. So A is the answer.

Answer 2

The correct answer to this is:

Option A: Cause and effect

As the paragraph opens with the information that the narrator and his kind are poorer than those white rich people. The narrator and his people rode buses whereas the rich white men rode their cars. So, it is the cause that the narrator is poor that leads to the effect that he was to work for the white people who are richer.