Answer:
C: The speaker is intelegent and clever, but did not excel in high school.
Explanation:
This is because the entire time the writer talks about not being a loser and not doing well in highschool thus eliminating D along with B because he doesn't say much about his stepfather. It also can't be A because there was no evidence of the writer being lazy.
Also, I did it on USA test prep
He reads, educates himself
i answered this before to another person. literally the events that wrap up the book is in the summary the summary tells you it all but it doesn't mean you should copy the summary just use the summary for guidance
for example,
Slay" is a double entendre. It means to greatly impress and to annihilate. Brittney Morris's debut young-adult novel, SLAY, does just that. It tells the story of a young Black woman who has to be twice as much as her peers while secretly blaming herself for a senseless homicide that happened far from home.
B or D because they are from narratives and are short stories