Question

rescue on the river
\hey, cully,\ shouted penny, \i heard you had a little
adventure on the river?\
i respected that soft-spoken boatman because he
always appreciated my mother’s courage and skill. to set
him straight, i explained what happened on that day.
i asked my mother, captain irene, if i could work
near at the river crevasse docks while six of my older
brothers were fishing for crawfish and the other five were
hogging the station of gumbo stew...
“it was clear that i had a sore arm from wrestling a
drowning ball of alligators, but i figured the exercise
would be good for me and give my much-needed
practice for becoming a great boater like her,” i said.
she didn’t need my help; she’s incredibly strong.
my mother agreed to let me use the long metal-
pronged pole to push the flat-bottomed boat, big river’s
prowler, out into the mississippi river.
“going upstream against the current, i quickly
became tired and wanted, and the muscles in my calves and
arms burned,” i told penny. “my mother stevenson,
very gently, pushed the pole into the sand so my brothers
to leave no doubt about captain irene’s talents, i
explained to penny how she grabbed the pole from my
hands: “she said, ‘let me take a turn, son, so i can work up
a little appetite for the gumbo your brothers are cooking.’ ”
which statement best paraphrases this sentence?
penny listened as cully described a time that his
brothers were cooking while cully and captain
irene took turns pushing the boat along the river
with a pole.
to convince penny that captain irene was
exceptional, cully told him about when she took
over piloting the boat because she wanted to be
hungry for dinner.
captain irene was so gifted that she took the pole
from cully because she wanted a turn before
returning home to enjoy some gumbo that his
brothers were cooking.
captain irene and her family shared duties with
each other, from taking out a boat with cully to her
brothers taking turns cooking, and penny needed to
know this.

Explanation:

The key details are: Colly tells Remy that Captain Annie (his mother) took the pole to "work up a little appetite for the gumbo your brothers are cooking," to prove her skill. We need to match this to the option that includes her taking the pole to work up an appetite for the gumbo his brothers made, highlighting her talent.

Answer:

Captain Annie was so gifted that she took the pole from Colly because she wanted a turn before returning home to enjoy some gumbo that his brothers were cooking.