“then down the / third street, the third wrong way.”
B
“the fourth spoke of the wheel another mistake.”
C
“Last kid in sight, country mouse, / five years old”
D
“at the center of a compass that had lost / her true north”
Explanation
The excerpt describes a five-year-old girl who keeps choosing the wrong streets and feels lost. The image of a compass that has lost “her true north” suggests she has no sense of direction and does not know where to go. Choice D gives the clearest evidence of her confusion; the other choices describe the wrong turns or the girl without expressing that central idea as directly.
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