Read the passage.I sat outside on the blisteringly hot front steps. We were spending the summer in a rental because we were in the process of moving. I was miserable. I didn’t want to move, and this house was not air-conditioned. This also happened to be the hottest July on record. It was hard to decide if it was hotter inside or out. I settled on outside, resting on the faint hope that I might catch a rare breeze. I was troubled that my mother took the new job. She could have let us stay in the old house until she closed on the new one, but she had wanted us to stay together as a family. As sweat ran down my face and my back, I felt fury rising up within me. Maybe it was selfish of me not to want to move. Our old house was perfect. Our old house felt safe and comfortable. Here we had to share, and it was stiflingly hot. "She never thinks of anyone but herself,” I muttered out loud. Just then, my mother came out and announced that she was taking us all for a drive so we could cool off in the van.
Answer
A
The setting makes the narrator resent their mother for forcing the family to stay together.
B
The setting has caused the narrator to feel angry and to argue with their mother.
C
The setting has caused the narrator to blame their mother for their discomfort.
D
The setting makes the narrator so miserable that they do not appreciate their mother’s offer of a drive.
Explanation
The narrator describes the rental house as unbearably hot and uncomfortable, then connects that misery to the mother’s decision to take the new job and move the family. The narrator mutters, “She never thinks of anyone but herself,” blaming the mother for the situation. Choice C, “The setting has caused the narrator to blame their mother for their discomfort,” best captures this reaction.
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