Part 1. Definition
In this task, you will be presented with a text, a pronoun from the text, and two candidate names. You should determine what the pronoun refers to and classify the answers into A, B, or Neither. A and B here are referring to option A and option B. Position of the pronoun in the text is showed within two "_"s.
Part 2. Example
He grew up in Evanston, Illinois the second oldest of five children including his brothers, Fred and Gordon and sisters, Marge (Peppy) and Marilyn. His high school days were spent at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois. MacKenzie studied with Bernard Leach from 1949 to 1952. _His_ simple, wheel-thrown functional pottery is heavily influenced by the oriental aesthetic of Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai. <sep>, Pronoun: His <sep>, A: MacKenzie <sep>, B: Bernard Leach
Answer: A
Explanation: Based on the text, his refers to MacKenzie so option A is correct.
Part 3. Exercise
entitled ``The Shadow and the Act'', which expanded upon his critique in ``Twentieth Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity'' of the vicious and detrimental stereotypes rampant in mainstream American culture. Reviewing the book in 1965, R. W. B. Lewis said: ``Shadow and Act contains Ralph Ellison's real autobiography.... The experiences of writing Invisible Man and of vaulting on _his_ first try ``over the parochial limits of most Negro fiction'' (as Richard G. Stern says in an interview), and, as a result, of being written about as a literary and sociological phenomenon, combined with sheer compositional difficulties, seem to have driven Ellison to search out the truths of his own past. <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Richard G. Stern <sep>, B: Ellison
Answer:
B