She took me by the hand walked me into the lobby like a five-year old child. Didn’t she know I was pushing 15? This was the third home Nancy was placing me in-in a span of eight months! I guess she felt a little sorry for me. The bright fluorescence lights threatened to burn my skin as I walked towards a bouncy-looking lady with curly hair and a sweetly-smiling man. They called themselves Allie and Alex. Cute, I thought.
After they exchanged the usual reams of paperwork, it was off in their Chevy Suburban to get situated into another new home. This time, there were no other foster children and nor another biological child. Anything could happen.
Over the next few weeks, Allie, Alex and I fell into quite a nice routine. She’d make pancakes for breakfast, or he’d fry up some sausage and eggs. They sang a lot, even danced as they cooked. They must have just bought the house because, most weekends, We were either painting a living room butter yellow or staining a coffee table mocha brown.
I kept wating for the other shoe to drop. When would they start threatening a loss of pancakes if I didn’t mow the lawn? When would the sausage and eggs be replaced with unidentifiable slosh because he didn’t feel like cooking in the morning? But, It never happened. They kept cooking, singing, and dancing like a couple of happy fools.
It was a Saturday afternoon when Allie decided it was time to paint the brick fireplace white. As we crawled closer to the dirty old firepit, we pulled out the petrified wood and noticed a teeny-tiny treasure box! We looked at each other in wonder and excitement. She actually said,” I wonder if the leprechauns left it!”
From the passage It may be assumed that the narrator was a 15 year old teenager without parents because the passage talks about.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Foster home for the narrator and other foster children
A foster home is a family that looks after a child whose own parents cannot. The narrator, nearly 15, is being placed in a third home in eight months, and the passage notes that "this time, there were no other foster children", so the earlier homes had other foster children. These details show that the narrator has no parents to live with.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: Cleaning firepits — Incorrect. Wrong link: the firepit is mentioned only when they paint the fireplace; it tells us nothing about the narrator's parents.
Option 3: Church and Chapels of Great Britain — Incorrect. Not mentioned: no church or chapel is mentioned in the passage.
Option 4: Malls of a Metropolitan city — Incorrect. Not mentioned: no mall or city is described; the story stays in the new home.