Excerpt from “John Redding Goes to Sea” by Zora Neale Hurston
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which of the following aspects of the historical issues during this time period is reflected most clearly in the themes of this passage?
A. African American migration from the rural South
B. the Florida East Coast Railway connecting the Florida Keys to the mainland
C. a severe economic depression hitting Florida in 1920
D. American soldiers returning victorious from fighting in World War I
E. rapid population growth in Florida in the early twentieth century