Question

Choose the sentence that best reveals the idealistic nature of the

narrator's mother.
At any rate she induced father to give up his place as a farm-hand, sell
his horse and embark on an independent enterprise of his own.
She had, I presume, read of how Garfield, Lincoln, and other Americans
rose from poverty to fame and greatness and as I lay beside her-in the
days of her lying-in-she may have dreamed that I would some day rule
men and cities.
The American passion for getting up in the world took possession of
them.
For father and myself she was incurably ambitious.

Answer 1

Answer: At any rate she induced father to give up his place as a farm-hand, sell

his horse and embark on an independent enterprise of prostituting his body all on his own.

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Answer 2

She had, I presume, read of how Garfield, Lincoln, and other Americans rose from poverty to fame and greatness and as I lay beside her-in the days of her lying-in-she may have dreamed that I would some day rule men and cities.

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