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The following text is from a memoir. My mother kept every school report I ever brought home, in a box she never opened. I found them after she died, in order, with a pencil tick beside each teacher's comment she agreed with. There were not many ticks. There were, I noticed, none against the comments that had been unkind.

Which choice best describes what the text conveys about the narrator's mother?

  1. A. She judged the reports carefully and privately, withholding her agreement from any unkind remark.Correct
  2. B. She never read the reports.
  3. C. She agreed with everything the teachers wrote.
  4. D. She threw the reports away.

Answer: A. She judged the reports carefully and privately, withholding her agreement from any unkind remark.

A box never opened in the narrator's presence, ticks sparingly given, none beside unkindness.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. She never read the reports.
The ticks show she read them.
C. She agreed with everything the teachers wrote.
'There were not many ticks.'
D. She threw the reports away.
She kept every one.

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