Anticipating the Future through Texts: Visions — Cumulative exam

Question 33 • Hopkins FA American Literature (2026-2027)

Which excerpt from "Math Curse" best helps the reader predict the narrator's main conflict?

Answer

"I look in my closet, and the problems get worse: I have 1 white shirt, 3 blue shirts, 3 striped shirts, and that ugly plaid shirt my Uncle Zeno sent me."

"ON MONDAY in Math class, Mrs. Fibonacci says, "YOU KNOW, you can think of almost everything as a math problem."

"Each pizza is cut into 8 equal slices. Each pie is cut into 6 equal slices. And you know what that means: fractions."

"THE WHOLE morning is one problem after another. There are 24 kids in my class."

Explanation

Choice B introduces the idea that almost everything can be thought of as a math problem. That comment helps predict the narrator’s main conflict: the narrator begins seeing ordinary parts of life as math problems and feels overwhelmed by them. The other excerpts show individual examples of that problem, but B gives the idea that starts it.

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