PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to part A? A. “she’s almost as happy / about my degree as she was when I walked in the
room.” (Lines 4-5)
B. “Mommy De recognizes my diploma. / Her smile reaches her eyes, she parts her
lips,” (Lines 1-2)
C. “I feel a little guilty that mom / has to call herself ‘Bethy,’ to answer the inevitable
/ ‘Who are you,’ coax a smile of semi-memory.” (Lines 10-12)
D. “Even my aunt Annette, who shares that name with her mother, / lives in the
same city and visits more often than me” (Lines 18-19)