Read the passage from "initiation."
the door behind her opened and a ray of light sliced across the soft gloom of the basement room.
"hey millicent, come on out now. this is it." there were some of the girls outside.
"i'm coming," she said, getting up and moving out of the soft darkness into the glare of light, thinking: this is it, all right. the worst part, the hardest part, the part of initiation that i figured out myself.
the passage provides evidence that millicent has just overcome what kind of conflict?
a. character vs. character.
b. character vs. nature.
c. character vs. self.
d. character vs. society.

Read the passage below and answer the question that follows. ‘you make me feel uncivilized, daisy,’ i confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. ‘can’t you talk about crops or something? ’ i meant nothing in particular by this remark but it was taken up in an unexpected way. ‘civilization’s going to pieces,’ broke out tom violently. ‘i’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. have you read ‘the rise of the coloured empires’ by this man goddard? ’ ‘why, no,’ i answered, rather surprised by his tone. ‘well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. the idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. it’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.’ in this passage, tom’s ideas about race relations come off as uncivilized. what literary device is fitzgerald using here?