Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.I wanted to tell her she shouldn’t be playing Scrabble yet. Or looking in the mirror. Or turning the stereo any louder than what you needed just to hear it.What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?

The narrator thinks his mother should not yet be doing ordinary activities such as playing Scrabble, looking in the mirror, or listening to music. This suggests he assumes those activities mean she is moving on from her grief too soon. Choice A, that her activities suggest an end to her grief, best matches that assumption.

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