Question

1 if we the summer of 2013, a southern june when cicadas would normally be buzzing and heat would be omnipresent until nearly every basketball and baseball game around the cu- and jmc. but this year was different—it had been unusually cool, cloudy, gloomy, chilly, and rainy blows friends. tasha and jenny, was new at her house on hundreds of tree ornamented on the back porch and lightning lit up the sky. it was, quite literally, a dark and stormy night. 2 things were even worse from visual thought. an oak tree had fallen on jenny’s house down the street, she pointed electricity to the entire neighborhood, and, although no one had been injured, tasha and jenny were in school at juns. 3 jenny was holding a flashlight to her chin, casting her face in white shadows. “what,” she asked her friends in her honest, most spooky voice, “shall we do tonight?” 4 the three of them had been reading ghost stories aloud from goosebumps for the past hour and now sat on pillows in jun’s pitch-black room, which last happened to be in the attic. suffice it to say, the girls were a bit more jumpy than usual. 5 “let’s play with the ouija board,” suggested tasha. “i want to see what luke and jonathan are up to.” 6 luke and jonathan were the so - called “ghosts,” they sometimes communed with through the ouija board, a flat game board printed with the letters of the alphabet. when two or more people put their hands on a planchette (a heart - shaped piece of plastic with a hole in it), the planchette was supposed to move around the board mysteriously to reveal whatever spelling out messages from the spirit world. ouija could be fun sometimes, but everyone knew tasha was into it. 7 “we did that last week,” complained jen, tugging her knees ever harder to her chest as another flash of lightning cracked outside the window. 8 “ok,” said jenny. “i have an idea—since we’ve read all of jun’s books already, why don’t we have a contest to make up our own ghost stories?” 9 tasha said “yeah!” and clapped enthusiastically with her flashlight, while jun, barely visible in the darkness, just nodded her head apprehensively. 10 tasha and jenny decided that they should all split up, and the two girls immediately ventured out into the darkness. as she crept carefully toward the attic closet, the friends know that the first rule of horror movies is to never split up? she heard an unusual sound. places where her parents kept their old records, books, and clothes. 11 “creakcreak, scrape,” said the sound loudly, almost like an old wooden door opening. 12 but jun’s house had been newly built, and after a year of living there, she knew every door and stair by heart—and

Explanation:

The problem seems to be related to a reading comprehension question (though the options are not fully clear from the image, but the text is a narrative about ghost stories and a Ouija board, likely a question about the story's events or character actions). Since it's a literary analysis or comprehension, the Arts subfield of Literature applies. The text is a story with characters (Tasha, Jenny, etc.) and plot elements (ghost stories, Ouija board, sounds), so Literature (Arts) is the subfield.

Answer:

(Assuming a typical reading comprehension question, but since options are partially visible, if we take the context, for example, if the question was about what happens or a character's action, but based on the text, if we need to identify the correct option related to the story, but due to image clarity, let's assume a possible question: If the question was "What did Tasha and Jenny decide to do?" From the text, "Tasha and Jenny decided that they should all split up, and the two girls immediately ventured out into the darkness..." but since options are unclear, but the subfield is Literature (Arts). However, if we need to pick the subfield, it's Literature (Arts). But if it's a multiple-choice about the story, more context is needed. But based on the problem type, the subfield is Literature (Arts).)