The correct answer is selective attention.
Molly can selectively choose what to focus her attention to and what to mute. In her case, she is listening only to what the teacher has to say and not pay attention to what her friends are talking about around her. She is able to do this because her selective attention has improved.
African Americans still faced discrimination. Many white people did not like the idea of the African Americans being freed. Most of the former slaves, grandfathers and their grandkids, would sit down together to learn how to become literate. However, most white teachers did not want to teacher them. So the African American teachers had to teach A LOT of people.
It is Sucre. Hope this helps!
