Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close . I wanted to tell her she shouldn’t be playing Scrabble yet. Or looking in the mirror. Or turning the stereo any louder than what you needed just to hear it. What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?

The narrator thinks his mother should not yet be playing Scrabble, looking in the mirror, or enjoying music loudly. His concern assumes that these ordinary activities mean she is moving on from her grief before he thinks she should. The excerpt does not suggest that she is neglecting work or time with him, so C is the best answer: her activities suggest an end to her grief.

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