Question

autobiography of z. s. hastings: written for his boys
by z. s. hastings (excerpt)
chapter 2
(1) at the time of father’s arrival, indiana was only 14 years old and contained about 300,000 inhabitants. its capital city’s first mayor was inaugurated two years before i was born and three years after the stars fell.
(2) in 1842 when i was about four years old my parents sold out and moved down the river five or six miles and bought a new, larger and better farm with a large two story hewed log house and a big double log barn, and a good apple orchard. the farming land was bottom and lay along the river. here we had some sheep and cattle on a few hills and some hogs in the woods, that got fat in the winter on white oak acorns and beech nuts. and here we had a large \sugar orchard\ as the hosiers called it—hard maple trees by the many from which, in the early spring, flowed the sweet sap by the barrels full which we converted into gallons of maple syrup, and into many cakes of maple sugar.
(3) it was while we lived here, when i was six years old, there was the greatest flood, known to me, since the days of noah. i remember it well. you too, my boys, will never forget the year when i tell you it was the same year, 1844, in which your best earthly friend was born, your mother. but i did not know anything about her until twenty years afterwards.
select the correct text in the passage.
which detail best shows the idea that the father enjoyed growing up in clarksburg?
(9) the biggest fish i ever saw caught i did not catch. brother henry, who was nine years older than i, caught it. it was a cat - fish, and henry and a boy named billy james, who was less than six feet tall, ran a pole through the fishs gills and carried the fish between them suspended from the pole which was rested upon the boys shoulders, and the fish was so long that its tail tipped the ground as the boys walked. now, this is the biggest fish story i ever tell, except the jonah story, and i believe both.
(10) we liked clarksburg because it was a good place for schools, sunday schools and churches. i hardly remember the time when i was not in school, sunday school and church. i think to this day these are good places for boys to be.
(11) my parents were always anxious to have their children in school and made many sacrifices to this end; as a result their five boys all were public school teachers before they were out of their teens.

Explanation:

To determine which detail shows the father enjoyed growing up in Clarksburg, we analyze each option:

• Sentence (9) is about a fish story, not directly about enjoying Clarksburg.
• Sentence (10) states "We liked Clarksburg because it was a good place for schools, Sunday Schools and churches" and adds he was almost always in these places, showing positive feelings toward growing up there.
• Sentence (11) focuses on parents' efforts for education, not the father's enjoyment of Clarksburg.

So the relevant detail is from sentence (10): "We liked Clarksburg because it was a good place for schools, Sunday Schools and churches. I hardly remember the time when I was not in school, Sunday School and church. I think to this day these are good places for boys to be."

Answer:

We liked Clarksburg because it was a good place for schools, Sunday Schools and churches. I hardly remember the time when I was not in school, Sunday School and church. I think to this day these are good places for boys to be.