Question

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Read the excerpt from Between the Silver and the Ash.

XAVIER

I don't understand. She wanted to be a farmer. I don't. I want to go to college. I want to be a doctor. She knew that.

KENNETH

Maybe you don't understand.

XAVIER

You're right. I don't understand. She gave me a farm. My dad's been trying to buy the Harston farm for two years. For me to farm. I keep telling him I don't want to be a farmer, but he won't listen. And now the one person I thought understood me . . .

KENNETH

Well . . . there's more than one thing you can do with a farm. You don't have to farm it.

XAVIER

Right. What else can you do with a farm besides plow it and plant it and harvest it, over and over again? What can you do with a farm besides farm it?

KENNETH

Sell it.

Which is the best description of Kenneth, based on this excerpt?

He is impatient with Xavier for not understanding.
He is trying to convince Xavier to sell the farm.
He quickly figures out Xavier’s grandmother’s intentions.
He believes that Xavier’s grandmother wanted Xavier to farm.

Answer 1

Answer: Option B

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

The best description of Kenneth, based on this excerpt is, He is trying to convince Xavier to sell the farm.

Answer: Option B

Step-by-step explanation:

The passage is a conversation between Xavier and Kenneth where Xavier is unhappy with his grandmother’s idea of him being a farmer. So he expresses his concern with Kenneth.

From the excerpt we can see that it was Xavier who was speaking most of the time, while Kenneth was simply relaxed and he didn’t interact much.

It was only at the end of the conversation when Kenneth gives an idea to Xavier that apart from farming, one thing which he can do is to sell it.

Kenneth in a way is trying to assure Xavier that he don’t need to farm if he don’t feel like, just sell the farm and his problem will be solved.