Question

What evidence supports the conclusion that the narrator’s mother reads about children who excel and tries to awaken similar talents in her daughter? Select three options.

“Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table.”
“She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children she had read in Ripley's Believe It or Not, or Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest, and a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom.”
“My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she cleaned. And since she cleaned many houses each week, we had a great assortment.”
“She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.”
“The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. . . . ‘What’s the capital of Finland?’ my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.”

Answer 1

Options 2, 4, and 5.

- 2: says she took examples from stories of amazing children and presented tests.
- 4: says she searched the magazines for stories about remarkable children.
- 5: shows she used a specific extraordinary-child story to quiz her daughter.