1. Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 7)? "And while
it's true that my children were endlessly fascinating, two petri dishes growing human cultures, being a
mother never had been, and all that seemed assigned by default of gender I would not do because it felt
insulting, I would not buy clothes, I would not make dinner, I would not keep schedules, I would not
make playdates, never ever. Mob jj8jtherhood meant, for me, that I would take the boys on month long
adventures to Europe, teach them to blast off rockets, to swim for glory."
a. The protagonist resents her children.
b. The protagonist does not know how to be a mother because her mother was absent.
c. The protagonist attempts to redefine the role of a caretaker.
d. The protagonist resents her husband for not partaking in the care of their children.