Question

select the correct text in the passage.
which text refers to an incident that occurred at a time before the setting of this story?

kinsley stared at her reflection, noting the nose upturned too much, lips too thin, and wondered just how much hair one needed to cover these ears.
clearly, much more than she had, kinsley reasoned as she glided the comb through her brown tresses. how could her fraternal twin sister be jealous of
this mess? kinsley sighed too loudly, and her bangs blew out of place and the tip of her ear emerged from her hair. maybe she should start wearing a\that.
taking her phone, she turned her head and raised her chin, and snapped a selfie. only seven selfies later, she took one that she deemed
\postable\ and uploaded it to her social media page. she was getting better at this; the last one took no less than thirteen tries to get all her
disagreeable parts to appear inconspicuous enough to satisfy her discriminating eye. these ears were not going to humiliate her, and she was certainly
not going to give megan fendergrass an opportunity to mortify her again.
meryl banged on the door, and before kinsley could grant her permission or bar her from entering, she was breaking in and flopping onto her bed.

Explanation:

To determine the incident before the story's setting, we analyze each option:

• "Kinsley stared...", "Kinsley reasoned...", "Taking her phone...", "Meryl banged..." describe current story actions.
• "she was certainly not going to give Megan Fendergrass an opportunity to mortify her again" implies a prior mortification incident (the "again" shows it happened before the story's present).

Answer:

she was certainly not going to give Megan Fendergrass an opportunity to mortify her again