Question

select the correct text in the passage. which detail best reveals freddys motivation for helping eleanor find a suitor? (5) it may sound unkind, but still you must admit that the whole situation was exasperating. here was five - foot - five of exquisite, blooming, twenty - year - old american girlhood sending away the man she confessed to care for, because, forsooth, she would not marry before her elder sister! i always thought it was beautiful of freddy (she was named frederica, you know) to be always so sweet and tender and grateful about eleanor; but sometimes gratitude can be carried altogether too far, even if you are an orphan, and were brought up by hand. eleanor was thirty - four if a day — a nice enough woman, of course, and college bred, and cultivated, and clever — but her long suit wasnt good looks. (6)
o,\ repeated freddy, \i shall never, never marry before eleanor. it would mortify her — i know it would — and make her feel that she herself had failed. shes awfully frank about those things, ezra — surprisingly frank. i dont see why being an old maid is always supposed to be so funny, do you? its touching and tragic in a woman whod like to marry and who isnt asked!\

Explanation:

The detail that shows Freddy's motivation is her empathy for Eleanor's pain of being unmarried and fearing she'd feel like a failure if Freddy marries first. This directly reveals why she wants to help Eleanor find a suitor.

Answer:

"No," repeated Freddy, "I shall never, never marry before Eleanor. It would mortify her—I know it would—and make her feel that she herself had failed. She's awfully frank about those things, Ezra—surprisingly frank. I don't see why being an old maid is always supposed to be so funny, do you? It's touching and tragic in a woman who'd like to marry and who isn't asked!"