Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Answer 1

The correct answer is the option that reads “With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street”. Taken from the short story “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry (1906), the excerpt presented above foreshadows the moment when Della cut his hair off and sell it to receive money in exchange. Della wanted to buy Jim a Christmas gift, but she only had $ 1.87. Previously to that, the narrator describes that Della had only one possession she was proud of: her hair. The excerpt presented above narrates the previous moments of Della’s suffering of cutting her hair off and the last sentence of the excerpt foreshadows such moment, stating that Della heads for the street in search for some place to sell her hair.

Answer 2

I think the answer is answer 4. With a whirl of her skirt and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street. Hope this helps.