Read the excerpt from dwight okita’s "in response to executive order 9066"

i didn’t know what to say. i gave her a packet of tomato seeds and asked her to plant them for me, told her when the first tomato ripened she’d miss me.

the narrator assumes that she will

a. see denise again.
b. die at the camp.
c. be gone for a long time.
d. never see denise again.

The correct answer is C. be gone for a long time

C. be gone for a long time.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from Dwight Okita's "In Response to Executive Order 9066" we can see the description of how the narrator gives Denise a packet of tomato seeds for her to plant them, and she told her that when the first tomato ripened she would miss her. This information expresses that the narrator assumes that she will be gone for a long time (because of the time that would take the tomato plant to grow).