Question

11th cycle 2 cell one
rain\ and \thriller\ videotapes that my father had brought back from america.
the second time our house was robbed, it was my brother nnamabia, who
faked a break - in and stole my mothers jewelry. it happened on a sunday. my
parents had travelled to their home town to visit our grandparents, so
nnamabia and i went to church alone. we sat together in church as we usually
did, but we did not have time to nudge each other and stifle giggles about
somebodys ugly hat or threadbare caftan, because nnamabia left without a
word after ten minutes. he came back just before the priest said, \the mass is
ended, go in peace.\ we drove home in silence, and when he parked in our long
driveway i stayed back to pick some ixora flowers while nnamabia unlocked
the front door. i went inside to find him standing in the middle of the parlor.
2 \weve been robbed!\ he said.
3 it took me a moment to te scroll down to see more ↓ it that there was a
theatrical quality to the way the drawers had been flung open. or perhaps it

1. part b: which detail from the story best supports the answer to part a?

○ a. \when he stole the exam questions from the study and sold them to
my father’s students, she yelled at him, but then told my father that
nnamabia was sixteen, after all, and really should be given more
pocket money.\ (paragraph 8)
○ b. \but the next morning a security man came to tell my parents that
nnamabia had been arrested at a bar with some cult boys and was
at the police station.\ (paragraph 13)
○ c. he seemed to enjoy his new role as the sufferer of indignities, and
he did not understand how lucky he was that the policemen allowed
him to come out and eat our food\ (paragraph 24)
○ d. \i shouted at the policeman. i told him the old man was innocent
and ill, and if the scroll down to see more ↓ p them find his son,
because the man did not even know where his son was.\

Explanation:

To solve this, we need to assume the answer to Part A (likely about Nnamabia's behavior or the family's response to his actions) and then find the detail that supports it. Let's analyze each option:

• Option A: Talks about Nnamabia stealing exam questions and the mother's reaction (yelling then excusing him, suggesting leniency). If Part A was about the family's lenient response to Nnamabia's misdeeds, this could support it.
• Option B: His arrest with cult boys – this is about a different incident (arrest, not theft at home) and may not support a Part A about, say, family leniency or his deceptive theft.
• Option C: His attitude after an incident – more about his perspective post - event, not directly supporting a Part A about the theft or family response to his earlier actions.
• Option D: A scene with a policeman and an old man – unrelated to Nnamabia's theft or the family's response to his actions.

To determine the best - supporting detail, we analyze each option. Option A describes Nnamabia's theft of exam questions and his mother's lenient response (yelling then advocating for more pocket money). If Part A was about the family's lenient attitude towards Nnamabia's misbehavior, this detail directly supports it. Options B (arrest with cult boys), C (his attitude post - incident), and D (interaction with a policeman and an old man) are either about different incidents or unrelated to the core of Nnamabia's theft at home and the family's response to it.

Answer:

A. "When he stole the exam questions from the study and sold them to my father’s students, she yelled at him, but then told my father that Nnamabia was sixteen, after all, and really should be given more pocket money." (Paragraph 8)