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SAT English Practice Question

The following text is adapted from a novel by the American writer James Baldwin. In the novel, a young man reflects on his relationship with his father: "I was a child of the city, and the city, which was a huge, chaotic, and indifferent organism, seemed to me as hostile as it was fascinating. My father had tried to teach me to read, had tried to teach me to respect the past, had tried to make me understand that the world was not merely a stage, that it was a prison. But I had not listened, and I had not learned. I was, I thought, too young to know."

  1. A.It was, I thought, too young to know.
  2. B.It was, I thought, too young to know—
  3. C.I was, I thought, too young to know,
  4. D.I was, I thought, too young to know;

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