Stealthily is to secrecy as exasperation is to:
a. relaxation
b. frustration
c. elation
d. causation

Explanation:

Stealthily is do something secretly and carefully in order to not be seen. And exasperation is an action that you do when frustration arrives.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

c is a symbol. when bernice gets her hair cut, it is the authors way of showing the affects and demands of pier pressure and the over-all attitudes of people at the time.