Question

Read this passage from “A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman” and answer the question.

For all the hope and energy I have placed in the process of immigration and accommodation–I’m a person who couldn’t ride a public bus when she first arrived, and now I’m someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels– there are parts of me that remain Indian....
Which BEST defines what the writer means by the word accommodation?
her willingness to accept a new country as home
her attempts to earn a living in a new country
her challenges finding a place to stay in a new country
her adjustment to life in a new country

Answer 1

her challenges finding a new place to stay

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Bharati Mukherjee was considered an American writer but she was born in Calcutta, India in 1940. Mukherjee always tried to give voice to people from all continents, but also to redefine the nature of American and what makes an American regardless of people’s backgrounds or ethnic culture. She wrote to try to include the voice of the minorities as well as the women from all over the world.

In this passage from “A Four-Hundred-Year-Old Woman” by Bharati Mukherjee, what the writer means by the word accommodation is:

her challenges finding a place to stay in a new country.