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Read the excerpt from It's 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 It's 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.

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