Answer:
A. Workhouse authorities were extremely careless in their duties
This is because the passage doesn't say anything about children being weak due to poor nourishment nor parishioners wrongly criticizing their own officials, and if the legal system carefully monitored parish affairs then children wouldn't be getting scalded to death or overlooked.
The last one is the answer im pretty sure
B.When
the boy taunts John, it shows that the boy is jealous of John’s
intelligence.
In this excerpt, John portrayed that his intelligence and
smarts overpowers the basic drives of the boy to poor sex and intimidation.
Because of this, the boy acts on to John taunting him to feel stronger .
The best answer for the way to focus on the topic of memoir would be D. I hope that this helps
