Question

sammy didnt look away from his smartphone to reply to his mothers request. he was busy texting vince cordova about a new show they were planning to binge watch friday night.
\sam... sammy!\
\what?\
\what do you mean, what? i need you to chop the scallions.\ it was 11:30 a.m., and the town pavilion-the office building janets food truck, kickin korean bbq, was parked outside of-was about to unleash a stampede of customers. \i have to get this beef marinating, otherwise in a half hour im going to lose a bunch of hungry tax consultants to the chicken and waffle guys across street.\
sammy smiled, but janet couldnt see his eyes from under his royal blue cap. then she realized he was still looking at his phone, which he was concealing below his knees as his fingers tapped the screen.
\hey!\ she threw a kitchen towel at him, and it unfurled in midair and landed on his head, draping itself over the brim of his cap.
\okay, okay, ill do it.\
janet had made a name for herself in kansas city, especially after a local magazine wrote a big cover story when she left her job as an attorney at a law firm after seven years to start a food truck business. if her own mother had still been alive, she would have been quite upset with janet for that. her mother had spent years learning to speak relatively good english, and shed been determined to make sure janet graduated from a respectable college and became a lawyer. even though shed made janet take korean lessons ever.scroll down to see more. by violin lessons in the afternoon-and cooked kimchi and other korean delicacies with her at least once a week-janets mother had wanted her to succeed by

1. which sentence from the text best demonstrates how sammys actions develop the theme of the importance of holding on to cultural traditions?

a. \then he headed out the back door of the truck.\
b. \sammy finished chopping a stalk of scallions and put down his knife in order to glance at his phone.\
c. \without saying a word, he climbed back into the food truck.\

Explanation:

To determine which sentence shows the importance of holding on to cultural traditions, analyze each option. Option A just describes a physical action (heading out the back door). Option B is about a task (chopping scallions) which is more of a general activity. Option C shows Sammy getting back into the food truck without a word, implying a connection to the food truck business which is likely a cultural - related food business (Korean BBQ as in the text), thus adhering to the cultural tradition of running the food truck.

Answer:

C. "Without saying a word, he climbed back into the food truck."