Question

read the selection and choose the best answer to each question. in this story, clare recalls the night her sister reverdy left home and never returned. reverdy - jessamyn west excerpted and adapted from
everdy\ the new mexico quarterly review, spring 1943 1. i never see asters without remembering her - never the haze of their pink and lavender blossoming as summer dies, but her name is in my heart: reverdy, reverdy. 2. i have longed all these years to tell her how it was the night she left. you may scarcely believe it, but it is worse to have a good thing that is not believed about you, than a bad. to be thanked for an act you meant as harmful - every year those words sharpen until at last they cut like 1. what can the reader infer about clare from paragraph 1? feels humiliated by her sisters actions is pained by the memory of her sister feels resentful about her sisters choices is secretive about the life of her sister clear all

Explanation:

The passage shows Clare's emotional reaction to her sister Reverdy leaving home and never returning. Words like "the words sharpen until at last they cut" and longing to tell her sister how it was imply pain. There is no indication of humiliation, secrecy about her sister's life, or resentment about her sister's choices.

Answer:

Clare is pained by the memory of her sister.