Question

Read the following list of scenes from a short story.

Scene 1: An old woman waits at a bus stop. She wears a special dress and make-up.
Scene 2: The woman’s daughter shows up. She had to track down her mother, who did not tell her where she was going.
Scene 3: The daughter scolds the mother for coming to the bus stop.
Scene 4: The mother tunes out the daughter. She remembers scenes from a romance she had more than fifty years ago.
Scene 5: The mother tells her daughter that some people never leave your heart.
Scene 6: The bus pulls up, and the two stand up to greet an elderly man as he disembarks.

Which scene is mostly likely a flashback?

Scene 6

Scene 1

Scene 4

Scene 3

Answer 1

Scene 4 — it describes the mother remembering scenes from a romance more than fifty years ago, which is a flashback.