Answer: The way the reader knew that the flower girl was intelligent is that:
A) She is smart enough to know what things cost and how a gentleman should treat a guest.
Explanation: The dialect of the flower girl is not a criteria for intelligence but since she could effectively know the cost of things and how a gentleman should treat a guest, she could be attributed as an intelligent person.
The sentence given is "A major Romantic poet, John Keats wrote brilliantly, loved hopelessly, and died prematurely. The answer is letter C. "and died prematurely". This is to maintain the parallel structure of the sentence which should be your guide in choosing the next phrase. "brilliantly", "hopelessly", and "prematurely" are alike.
An olive branch should be one of your choices.
