Question

my mothers garden by kaitlyn greenidge march 26, 2016 it was my first year as a scholarship student at a school that prized itself on teaching the skill of dispassionate debate. i quickly learned that the best thing you could bring to an argument was \objectivity\. we practiced this objectivity in our current events class. it was never 3. which piece of text best reveals why the narrators mother, despite being a
adically honest\ person, broke some of the rules of the housing project? \in our homes before poverty, before the divorce, we had always had a garden. when i was younger, my mother would give me my own small plot. i always chose to plant pansies.\ (18) \but the housing project forbade personal computers, because they used up too much electricity.\ (20) \obey the housing projects rules, dont go back to school, certain that path would mean no upward mobility and thus no way to leave public housing. or break the rules, work quiet and quick and hard, hoping the path she hacked in secret would allow some sort of escape.\ (21)

Explanation:

Option C reveals that the narrator's mother broke the rules of the housing - project because she saw it as a way to achieve upward mobility and escape public housing. Options A and B do not relate to the reason for breaking the rules.

Answer:

C. "Obey the housing project's rules, don't go back to school, certain that path would mean no upward mobility and thus no way to leave public housing. Or break the rules, work quiet and quick and hard, hoping the path she hacked in secret would allow some sort of escape." (21)