44 According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? 
(A)Hurston realized that her work was important. 
(B)Toomer did not know that his work was great. 
(C)The author did not agree that Cane was a great work. 
(D)Hurston’s book was considered more important than Toomer’s.

The writer—like the musician or painter—must be free to explore探測；勘查 ;otherwise否則，不然 she or he will never discover what is needed to be known.

This means, very often, finding oneself considered “unacceptable不能接受（或同意、允許）” by mass大量的；大規模 of people who think the writer’s obligation義務；責任 is to second the masses’ motion移動, 動；運動,whatever they are.

Yet the gift of a writer’s loneliness is sometimes a radical支援變革的, 激進的 vision頭腦中的影像, 幻景；幻像 of society or one’s people that has not previously以前地，先前 been taken into account.

Jean Toomer was, I think, a lonely, wandering漫游的, 徘徊的, 流浪 man, accustomed習慣的；適應 to being misunderstood—and yet, Cane is a great reward報答；報償；酬謝;though Toomer himself probably never realized it.

The same is true of Zora Neale Hurston. It is interesting to  contemplate盤算；沈思，冥想 what would have been the result and impact衝擊（力）；撞擊（力）on black women—since 1937—if they had read and taken to heart Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Would they still be as dependent on material things—fine cars, fur毛髮, （動物的）毛，毛皮  big houses, pot容器, 罐，壺 and  jar容器, 罐子 of face cream面霜 as they are today? Or would they, learning from the main character of the book that materialism is the dragrope牵引绳索 of the soul精神, 靈魂 ,have become women immune免疫的, 不受影響 to the accumulation積累；積聚 of things, and aware意識到的；明白的 that love, fulfilment所做的事, 完成；實現 of women, peace of mind, should logically論理上;邏輯上 come before, not after, selling one’s soul for a golden stool座位, 凳子, 排泄 on which to sit. Sit and be bored感到無聊的.