Trust me, I know what loss smells like:
the way fear and revolution play tug of war
on doorsteps, uproot loved ones from
framed pictures on walls, steal a father
from the dinner table – I can only hope
mine hears me now.
Answer choices for the above question
A. The civil war took her father away from the family.
B. The speaker is afraid to speak to her father.
C. The speaker never knew her father; she just saw a photograph of him.
D. The speaker’s father was not allowed to immigrate with his family to the United States.
1 answer
The best-supported inference about the speaker’s father from the passage is:
A. The civil war took her father away from the family.
This inference aligns with the context of the passage, where the speaker references loss associated with fear and revolution, suggesting that external conflict, such as a civil war, has resulted in the absence of her father.
