I believe your answer is D!
Answer:
I would say "Twenty dollars a week doesn’t go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are."
Explanation:
In this answer, it explicitly says " Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are." which infers that by saying "they always are", would imply she never makes enough money to be financially fit.
The correct answer is the first option. You can see that this answer is correct by reading this part of the passage: "Besides the fact that the new school was twice the size of his previous one, the student body was also enlarged which added to his anxieties. Furthermore, his older brother told him that the teachers would be rigorous and the classes more exigent; he questioned how he would ever survive in this jungle."
I got this question right as well as the others on the quiz. Here they are: