English

Nia Black

4 March, 12:34

Instructions:Select the correct text in the passage.

Which of these excerpts from "Once in a Lifetime" by Jhumpa Lahiri best exemplifies an exploration of diversity within socioeconomic status?

1. In my quiet, complicated way I continued to like you, was happy simply to observe you day after day.

2. On one side was the life we'd always led, my parents taking me to Star Market every Thursday night, treating me to McDonalds afterward.

3. My parents felt slighted by your parents' extravagant visions, ashamed of the modest home we owned.

4. The brief application of lipstick seemed to restore the composure that my sudden appearance had caused her to lose.