Question

read the excerpt from its our world, too!: young people who are making a difference. when they entered the board’s meeting room, neto was terrified. they were alone with the ten white men who were the members of the marsing school board. “i couldn’t believe i was really doing this,” neto recalls. “then i heard baldy say, ‘neto wants to talk with you about the football team.’ “so i just started. i told them i was quitting and why. i told them word - for - word what i had heard. only one of them looked like he was really listening. when i was finished, they thanked me for coming, but they didn’t say they would do anything about it. i went home thinking, well, at least i tried. now they can’t say nobody told them.” which detail from the excerpt best indicates that one of the author’s purposes in writing its our world, too!: young people who are making a difference was to create suspense? ○ “when i was finished, they thanked me for coming...” ○ only one of them looked like he was really listening. ○ “i couldn’t believe i was really doing this,” neto recalls. ○ i went home thinking, well, at least i tried.

Explanation:

Suspense is built by creating tension or uncertainty about an outcome. Neto's statement "I couldn't believe I was really doing this," shows his anxiety and the high stakes of his meeting with the all-white school board, which creates uncertainty about how the interaction will go, building suspense. The other options either show the end of the interaction, a lack of engagement, or acceptance of the outcome, which do not create suspense.

Answer:

"I couldn't believe I was really doing this," Neto recalls.