take the june, worst case is you mess it up and you have to do the august anyways.

Question 21. Correct answer is B, but for ambiguous reasons. #help

B is informed in Paragraph 3, Line 37: "In like manner, Ellison avoided the mere recapitulation of existing literary forms as well as the constraints of artistic isolation by using his work to explore and express the issues [themes] of identity and character that had so interested European writers."

These "issues" in paragraph 3, line 37 link back to the themes of "individual identity and character" explicitly called out in the first paragraph.

If B is not addressed, then I think it is a stretch to say that D is addressed in the first paragraph with "...indulging in European fictional modes..."

This question is a guess between those two, which are both informed in the passage.