Question

Read the question carefully and select the best answer.

Which of the following lines best supports the answer to Question 3?


A. “My oldest said, ‘Mamá, he doesn’t want you / to be smarter than he is.’”

B. “I’m forty, / embarrassed at mispronouncing words, / embarrassed at the laughter of my children,”

C. “Sometimes I take / my English book and lock myself in the bathroom,”

D. “for if I stop trying, I will be deaf / when my children need my help”

Answer 1

B — it explicitly says the speaker is "embarrassed at mispronouncing words" and at her children's laughter, directly supporting that idea.