Question

Read the excerpt from "On the Bus with Rosa Parks."

Rosa
How she sat there,
the time right inside a place
so wrong it was ready.

In this excerpt, the poet’s narration reveals

the poet’s feeling of pride in Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks’s feeling of fear on the bus.
the poet’s own fight against segregation.
the consequences of Rosa Parks’s act.

Answer 1

the consequences of Rosa Parks’s act.

Explanation: The lines show that her sitting occurred at a decisive moment inside a deeply wrong situation—implying her action set change in motion, not fear or the poet’s own fight.