Question
Which statement about the author’s feelings is best supported by the following passage (paragraph 1)?
I had never held any living thing so tiny in my hands. Six pounds and one ounce, lighter than my smallest dumbbell was my newborn niece, her face bright pink, her eyes tightly shut, her body coiled around itself in a fetal position, still defiantly resisting the world into which she’d just been thrust. I had been awaiting her birth with feverish anticipation; I was going away for the summer, and I didn’t want to leave before she was born, only to come back eight weeks later and find that she had grown accustomed to most things in the world except her auntie on her father’s side, the sole woman child in a family of men, who all her life had dreamed of having a sister.
A. Her niece’s birth is meaningful to her because she’d always wanted another girl in the family.
B. She is worried that her baby niece is underweight and in need of immediate medical attention.
C. She changed her plans in order to wait for her niece’s late birth.
D. All of the above
I had never held any living thing so tiny in my hands. Six pounds and one ounce, lighter than my smallest dumbbell was my newborn niece, her face bright pink, her eyes tightly shut, her body coiled around itself in a fetal position, still defiantly resisting the world into which she’d just been thrust. I had been awaiting her birth with feverish anticipation; I was going away for the summer, and I didn’t want to leave before she was born, only to come back eight weeks later and find that she had grown accustomed to most things in the world except her auntie on her father’s side, the sole woman child in a family of men, who all her life had dreamed of having a sister.
A. Her niece’s birth is meaningful to her because she’d always wanted another girl in the family.
B. She is worried that her baby niece is underweight and in need of immediate medical attention.
C. She changed her plans in order to wait for her niece’s late birth.
D. All of the above
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The best-supported statement about the author's feelings from the passage is:
A. Her niece’s birth is meaningful to her because she’d always wanted another girl in the family.
While the author does express anticipation about the birth and her concern about not seeing her niece grow accustomed to the world, the primary emotional focus is on the significance of having another girl in a family of men, which aligns with statement A. The other options (B and C) are not as strongly supported as A in the passage. Therefore, the correct answer is not D.
A. Her niece’s birth is meaningful to her because she’d always wanted another girl in the family.
While the author does express anticipation about the birth and her concern about not seeing her niece grow accustomed to the world, the primary emotional focus is on the significance of having another girl in a family of men, which aligns with statement A. The other options (B and C) are not as strongly supported as A in the passage. Therefore, the correct answer is not D.