Question

autobiography of z. s. hastings: written for his boysby z. s. hastings (excerpt)r 2the time of fathers arrival, indiana was only 14 years old anded about 300,000 inhabitants. its capital citys first mayor wasrated two years before i was born and three years after the stars fell.842 when i was about four years old my parents sold out and movede river five or six miles and bought a new, larger and better farmrge two story hewed log house and a big double log barn, and aple orchard. the farming land was bottom and lay along the river.had some sheep and cattle on a few hills and some hogs in thethat got fat in the winter on white oak acorns and beech nuts. andhad a large \sugar orchard\ as the hosiers called it—hard maplethe many from which, in the early spring, flowed the sweet sap byels full which we converted into gallons of maple syrup, and intokes of maple sugar.s while we lived here, when i was six years old, there was theflood, known to me, since the days of noah. i remember it well.my boys, will never forget the year when i tell you it was the same4, in which your best earthly friend was born, your mother. but iow anything about her until twenty years afterwards.ood was great. all the lower lands were under water. mr. greenesan, our nearest neighbors family had to go in a canoe from theeir kitchen to their smoke house to get meat. all our cattle ande in the stalk fields near the river, and all were drowned, exceptstrong cow which swam more than one half mile, almost in ae, and was saved. we could see the cattle huddled together on ad knoll away down in the field next to the river. the poorwould stand there until the rapidly rising waters would crowde knoll, and then they swam until exhausted and overcome byselect the correct answer.read the sentence from paragraph 4.(4) but finally she found footing where she could stand and then the poor creature stood and bawled and bawled for quite a while, and then walked to her young calf which was at the barn on the hillside.which feeling is evoked by the phrase bawled and bawled in paragraph 4?a. angerb. frustrationc. confusiond. sadness

Explanation:

The phrase "bawled and bawled" describes prolonged, distressed crying. The context tells us the cow was separated from her calf after a traumatic flood, and her loud, sustained crying reflects deep distress and grief, which aligns with sadness. The other options do not fit: anger would involve hostile behavior, frustration is about unmet goals, and confusion is about lack of understanding, none of which match the scene.

Answer:

D. sadness