Question

Read the excerpt from “The Treasure of Lemon Brown.” The dark sky, filled with angry, swirling clouds, reflected Greg Ridley’s mood as he sat on the stoop of his building. His father’s voice came to him again, first reading the letter the principal had sent to the house, then lecturing endlessly about his poor efforts in math. “I had to leave school when I was thirteen,” his father had said, “that’s a year younger than you are now. If I’d had half the chances you have, I’d . . .” Greg sat in the small, pale green kitchen listening, knowing the lecture would end with his father saying he couldn’t play ball with the Scorpions. A student wants to include information from this excerpt in an essay about how Greg Ridley changes from the beginning of the story to the end. Which paraphrased text best addresses the main points in this excerpt? Greg remembers his father’s lecture about having to drop out of school when he was thirteen, and how he wishes that he could have had the same education that Greg has. Now his father won’t let him play basketball. Greg feels upset and angry at the beginning of the story. He resents the lecture his father gave him about trying harder in school, and he is mad that his father won’t let him play basketball until his grades improve. Greg feels upset at the beginning of the story. He feels angry as “his father’s voice came to him again, first reading the letter the principal had sent to the house, then lecturing endlessly about his poor efforts in math.” Greg remembers how he sat in “the small, pale green kitchen” listening to his father “lecturing endlessly” about how he has to try harder in school. Greg also remembers his father’s story about how he had to drop out of school.

Answer 1

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a

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