What evidence supports the cartoonist’s perspective about expectations for children?
a. the happy expression on the child’s face
b. the message on the blackboard
c. the long list of activities the child gives
d. the books the children are carrying

the long list of activities the child gives

the cartoonist expects the kids to be hard working because of the long list of activities the child gives. the child's expression could be it, like the cartoonist could exlect them to be happy, but since they are clearly in school, it is safe to assume that is not the main idea. the message on the blackboard is a minor detail, that supports option c, and the children carrying books is also a minor detail, as well as a supporting detail for option c.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

b. our party quickly made its way into the cave / but we failed to find our host [the cyclops] himself inside.