What can the reader infer from the following passage?
she said, without turning her head, to me, "i hear you're doing very good schoolwork, marguerite,
but that it's all written. the teachers report that they have trouble getting you to talk in class." we
passed the triangular farm on our left and the path widened to allow us to walk together. i hung
back in the separate unasked and unanswerable questions.
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a. marguerite is having a hard time because she is struggling to communicate with people.
b. marguerite is depressed about the way that she looks.
c. marguerite is not doing well because her homework is too difficult.
d. marguerite thinks of herself like a biscuit because her mother never bakes tea cookies for her.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt