Part A Which sentence states a central idea of the passage from Waterlily?
Question 1 options:
A) Sometimes the pain of a loss can be soothed by a gift of new life.
B) Experiencing great pain makes a person kinder to others.
C) If you take happiness for granted, unhappiness will find you.
D) Time gives us the ability to understand what once bewildered us.
Part B
Which detail from the passage helps develop the answer in Part A?
Question 2 options:
A) "It was not that the people were unkind; quite the contrary." (paragraph 1)
B) "Tonight for the first time, with her infant, Waterlily, asleep beside her, she was again completely happy." (paragraph 2)
C) "She had been fourteen years old at the time." (paragraph 3)
D) "But busy as they were, the old grandmother took time out one afternoon for a walk under the tall cottonwoods nearby." (paragraph 5)