Read the excerpt from "Escape."

But the universe knows more
I must take this test just like everyone
Takes tests
I am closing in on the sky

This excerpt expresses the theme that it can be difficult to know yourself and your place in the world. Which excerpt from "To Live" expresses the same theme?


A. I sit in my
crunched-in
restraining
desk, they call it.
with my paper
and my pen

B. and I am
supposed to see
the blackboard
around the tall boy
en frente de mi

C. but my head
won’t translate
this language
log base b of a squared
carbon monoxide
reacting with phosphorus

D. learning without
knowing
without room
to learn how
to know myself
to be myself