16. Which detail from Emma Lazarus’s biography is most ful in understanding her poem “The New Colossus”?
A. Lazarus grew up reading and studying American and British literature and learned several languages.
B. Lazarus died shortly after the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, most likely from lymphoma, at age 38.
C. Being Jewish herself, Lazarus was especially attentive to the plight of Russian- Jewish refugees fleeing from persecution.
D. Emma Lazarus was born in 1849 to a wealthy family of Portuguese-Jewish descent in New York City.