Question

read the selection and choose the best answer to each question.
geraldine moore the poet
short story by toni cade bambara
1 geraldine paused at the corner to pull up her knee socks. the rubber bands she was using to hold them up made her legs itch. she dropped her books on the sidewalk while she gave a good scratch. but when she pulled the socks up again, two fingers poked right through the top of her left one.
2 “that stupid dog,” she muttered to herself, grabbing her books and crossing against traffic. “first he chews up my gym suit and gets me into trouble, and now my socks.”
3 geraldine shifted her books to the other hand and kept muttering angrily to herself about mrs. watson’s dog, which she minded two days a week for a dollar. she passed the hot - dog man on the corner and waved. he shrugged as if to say business was very bad.
4 must be, she thought to herself. three guys before you had to pack up and forget it. nobody’s got hot - dog money around here.
5 geraldine turned down her street, wondering what her sister anita would have for her lunch. she was glad she didn’t have to eat the free lunches in high school any more. she was sick of the funny - looking tomato soup and the dried - out cheese sandwiches and those oranges that were more green than orange.
6 when geraldine’s mother first took sick and went away, geraldine had been on her own except when miss gladys next door came in on thursdays and cleaned the apartment and made a meatloaf so geraldine could have dinner. but in those days geraldine never quite managed to get breakfast for herself. so she’d sit through social studies class, scraping up the noise of her stomach growling.
7 now anita, geraldine’s older sister, was living at home waiting for her husband to get out of the army. she usually had something good for lunch, and sometimes if she got in on time or bothered him from the

1. read the dictionary entry below.

glorious /ˈglɔːr - i - əs/ adj 1. having or deserving glory 2. conferring or advancing glory 3. characterized by great beauty and splendor 4. delightful, wonderful
which definition most closely matches the way the word glorious is used in paragraph 2g?
definition 1

definition 2

definition 3

definition 4

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the context of paragraph 2g (though the specific paragraph 2g text isn't fully clear from the image, we use the dictionary definitions):

• Definition 1: "having or deserving glory" – less likely for a casual context.
• Definition 2: "conferring or advancing glory" – also less casual.
• Definition 3: "characterized by great beauty and splendor" – too grand for typical use.
• Definition 4: "delightful, wonderful" – this is the most common, everyday usage of "glorious" to mean something pleasant or enjoyable.

We analyze the dictionary definitions of "glorious" and match them to typical usage. Definition 4 ("delightful, wonderful") is the most common everyday meaning, fitting casual contexts better than the more grand definitions (1–3).

Answer:

definition 4 (delightful, wonderful)