Question

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. The next morning I told Mom that I couldn’t go to school, because I was to sick. It was the first lie that I had to tell. She put her hand on my forehead and said, “You do feel a bit hot.” I said, “I took my temperature and is one hundred point seven degrees.” That was the second lie. She turned around and asked me to zip up the back of her dress which she could have done herself, but she knew that I loved to do it. What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?

Answer 1

Answer: C - That his mom will trust him

Answer 2

I suppose that the assumption that the narrator is making is that the boy is actually not sick he is lying about it to his mother.