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It means they wouldn't beg/request for him to stay with them longer.
It will prepare anyone for success by showing them about different environmental stuff. Hope this helps :)
He made the basketball team I think is the correct one.
The correct answer is indeed a rhetorical question.
Rhetorical questions are those questions which don't necessarily need an answer. They just show us what somebody is thinking about, and it doesn't mean they want their question answered. This is what the excerpt above is about.
The answer is B: <span>The reader learns both that the narrator has an older brother, and his brother and John are older.</span>
