Question

Read the excerpt from "Lise Marie de Baissac.”

In Normandy, Baissac pretended to be a refugee from Paris living in the house of a schoolmaster. There, she helped to set up more resistance groups and organize sabotage actions. Again traveling by bicycle, she maintained secret communications between groups and transported supplies. This was extremely dangerous work.

Which best describes the meaning of the underlined word?

argued for
blocked
kept up
understood

Answer 1

kept up

("Maintained" here means continued or kept up — she kept up secret communications between groups.)