This question is based on Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen The main challenge Adah encounters in England is

Analyze the question: It asks for the main challenge Adah faces in England in Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

Concept: The novel follows Adah, a determined Igbo woman who moves from Lagos to London to join her husband, Francis. Her story shows several layers of struggle:

• Racism: The title refers to being treated as a "second class citizen" in Britain because she is black. She faces housing discrimination, as landlords refuse to rent to black families with children, and she meets prejudice at work and in daily life.
• Poverty: The family is poor and lives in cramped, run-down housing.
• Gender oppression: Francis is lazy, irresponsible and abusive, and he expects her to support him.
• Education: Adah is well educated and ambitious, so being "half literate" does not fit her at all.

Solution:

• A (being a woman): Gender oppression is a major theme, but it is not specific to England. Adah already faced it in Nigeria, from her family and from the expectation that a girl's education matters less than a boy's.
• B (financial limitations): This is a real problem, but it is a consequence of Francis's irresponsibility and of the discrimination that limits her options. It is not the central challenge.
• C (being half literate): This is wrong. Adah is literate and educated, and she works as a librarian.
• D (being a black person): This is the central issue of the England setting. The title itself reflects the racial prejudice that makes her and other black people second class in British society.

Tip: In questions on Second Class Citizen, link the title to the theme. "Second class" points to racial discrimination in England, and Adah's gender struggles run alongside it as a second theme. When a question asks about challenges in England specifically, think race first.