Question

read the excerpt from richard wrights black boy.
\mama, im hungry,\ i complained one afternoon.
\jump up and catch a kungry,\ she said, trying to make me laugh and forget.
\whats a kungry?\
\its what little boys eat when they get hungry,\ she said.
in this excerpt, wrights mother is
attempting to teach her son a lesson.
misunderstanding her sons feelings.
using humor to help her son feel better.
presenting a solution to her sons problem.

Explanation:

The text explicitly states the mother is "trying to make me laugh and forget" her son's hunger by using a silly made-up word "kungry" in a playful exchange. This matches the description of using humor to comfort him. The other options are incorrect: she is not teaching a lesson, she understands his hunger (she addresses it with humor), and she does not offer a real solution to the hunger.

Answer:

using humor to help her son feel better.