Question

Read the excerpt from "Clara Barton’s Childhood.”

When she was eight years old, her father left his hill farm and moved down to the Learned house, a much bigger farm of three hundred acres, with the brook-like French river winding through its broad meadows, and three great barns standing in the lowlands between the hill and the house. Although her siblings remained to care for the smaller farm, Clara was not lonesome in the new home in the valley.

What can be inferred by the description of this setting?

Clara was unhappy about the move.
The new farm was too large for the family.
The old hill farm was lacking a source of water.
Clara’s father was a successful farmer.

Answer 1

Clara’s father was a successful farmer.

The passage emphasizes that he moved to a much bigger, 300‑acre farm with a river and three great barns, which implies prosperity. The other choices aren’t supported (Clara is said to be “not lonesome,” nothing indicates the new farm was “too large,” and the old farm’s water situation isn’t mentioned).