Read the following paragraphs and respond to the questions that follow by choosing the letter of the correct answer.
The two sisters moved speechlessly through the Georgian revival house on Power Street, the official
residence of the president of Brown University. As they stepped across the marble entranceway, noted the three fireplaces, and walked around the sunny conservatory, they thought of their first house: a corrugated1 tin shack perched on blocks on an East Texas farm where their father, a father of 12, was a tenant farmer2. “The overall impression is one of disbelief that in a lifetime one can travel so far,” said Ruth J. Simmons, 55, the younger of the two women, who learned this week she would be given the keys to that house, to say nothing of the 236-year-old Brown campus in Providence, Rhode Island. “We were a little numb thinking about it.”
What can you infer about the lives the two sisters led as children?
a. They had no mother.
b. They were very poor.
c. Most of their siblings were younger.
d. Most of their siblings were sisters.
b. They were very poor.
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