Read the excerpt from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences,
1815-1897.
So, as soon as we were dismissed, I ran down the hill,
rushed breathless into [my father's] office, laid the new
Greek Testament, which was my prize, on his table and
exclaimed: "There, I got it!" He took up the book, asked
me some questions about the class, the teachers, the
spectators, and evidently pleased, handed it back to me.
Then, while I stood looking and waiting for him to say
something which would show that he recognized the
equality of the daughter with the son, he kissed me on
the forehead and exclaimed, with a sigh, "Ah, you should
have been a boy."
Which best states the central idea of this excerpt?
O Stanton succeeds in school in spite of the fact that
she is a girl.
O Stanton never receives the recognition she wishes for
from her father.
O Stanton is excited about winning a new Greek
Testament
Stanton's father asks her questions about her
experiences in school.