In Living to Tell the Tale, which sentence from paragraph 7 most strongly
supports the narrator making the connection that he and his mother are abandoned like the thief’s family?
Question 4 options:

a)

“The town dignitaries came to Maria Consuegra’s house to offer her their condolences for having killed the thief.”

b)

“I went that night with Papalelo, and we found her sitting in an armchair from Manila that looked like an enormous wicker peacock, surrounded by the fervor of her friends who listened to the story she had repeated a thousand times.”

c)

“Everyone agreed with her that she had fired out of sheer fright.”

d)

“Maria Consuegra, it seemed, had not been conscious of this heart-breaking lament until my grandfather asked her the question.”