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About Author About Author About Theme General Comprehension Answer the following questions with the information from the text. General Comprehension Answer the following questions with the information from the text. General Comprehension Answer the following questions with the information from the text. Theme Comprehension Fill in the blanks in the following sentences to grasp the main ideas of the article. Theme Comprehension Fill in the blanks in the following sentences to grasp the main ideas of the article. Theme Comprehension Fill in the blanks in the following sentences to grasp the main ideas of the article. Theme Comprehension Fill in the blanks in the following sentences to grasp the main ideas of the article. * * * * * * Say Yes Tobias Wolff He was born in Alabama in 1945. His parents divorced when he was a boy. As a child, Wolff traveled with his mother, Rosemary, to the Pacific Northwest, where she remarried. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, young Tobias soon was forced to endure life under his strict and cruel stepfather. His efforts to get away from his stepfather led to his self-transformation. He lives with his family in New York and teaches writing at Syracuse University. From 1964 through 1968, Wolff served as a lieutenant with the U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Berets) in Vietnam. He later recounted his wartime experiences in the memoir In the Pharaoh’s Army: Memoirs of the Lost War.  Tobias Wolff He is the author of the short novel The Barracks Thief, which won the 1985 PEN/Faulkner Award; two collections of short stories, Back in the World (collecting “Say Yes”) and In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, which received the Saint Lawrence Award for fiction in 1982. What is Racism? Racism is the belief that the genetic factors which constitute race are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Racisms effects are called racial discrimi