Question

Read the excerpt from “Seventh Grade.”

Victor hurried to the bag lunch area, where he sat down and opened his math book. . . . He lowered his eyes, pretending to study, then looked slowly to the left.

Victor pretends to study because he

Answer 1

c- he does wanna impress her

Step-by-step explanation:

because he is doing things he knows he is not good at

Answer 2

Victor pretends to study because he wants to act like Theresa in order to impress her

Step-by-step explanation:

"Seventh grade" by Gary Soto is the story of Victor who has just started the 7th grade, and as he takes his classes of the first day he gets to know Theresa and he wants to impress her in French class pretending that he already knows it, then because of that he gets Theresa to ask him to study French together so she can improve it.