The following question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.
Part A:
Which sentence BEST explains why Emma befriends Harriet?
A
Harriet lacks refinement, and Emma wants a project.
B
Harriet does not have many friends, and Emma is very sociable.
C
Harriet wants to become a member of high society, and Emma can help her.
D
Harriet wants to be married, and Emma knows the eligible bachelors.
Part B:
Which excerpt from the text BEST supports your answer to Part A?
A
Harriet Smith was the natural daughter of somebody. Somebody had placed her, several years back, at Mrs. Goddard's school, and somebody had lately raised her from the condition of scholar to that of parlour-boarder.
B
. . . but they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect.
C
. . . Emma lost no time in inviting, encouraging, and telling her to come very often; and as their acquaintance increased, so did their satisfaction in each other.
D
Emma encouraged her talkativeness, amused by such a picture of another set of beings, and enjoying the youthful simplicity which could speak with so much exultation of Mrs. Martin's having "two parlours, two very good parlours, indeed . . . and of their having eight cows. . . ."