A quotation question tests whether a line shows the claim about a person or place. Read the claim and split it into parts, including what changes and what causes the change. Then predict what a line would have to show to cover all those parts. Put each quotation in plain words, asking who does what and what any image means. A line can share the topic without supporting the claim, so check every part of the claim.
Hints
- Hint 1
Go to Lee’s final sentence and put the claim in a few words. What does it say has changed for the residents?
- Hint 2
The claim covers both perceive and interact. Check what each verb asks you to prove.
- Hint 3
For each quotation, ask what has changed because of the recovery. How does the line show a change in the residents themselves?
Step-by-step
Match both parts of the claim
Step 1Identify both changes
Lee connects the stream’s recovery to how residents perceive and interact with their environment, so this quotation has to show more than a cleaner stream. What needs to change for the residents? They must see their surroundings differently and engage with them differently. Predict a line where the recovery gives residents a new view of the stream and leads them to act on that view, rather than continuing an old habit.
- Step 2
Test whether residents have changed
Do the people in each line show the change meant by transformed? Mrs. Alvarez’s warning that creek is poison keeps the old fear alive and leads her to steer her grandson away. The anglers gather more out of nostalgia than confidence, so their visit comes from old memories while they still question the stream’s safety. The cyclists treat the water as background, which shows riders using a new trail without seeing the stream in a new way. Activity near the water doesn’t by itself show the change Lee claims.
- Step 3
Read the discovery image
The parents pointing out minnows link the stream’s recovery to a new way of engaging with it: they show their children fish where oil once floated. What does a secret world unfurling at their feet show about their view? In plain words, the stream seems to reveal a whole living world they hadn’t seen before, so they now see it differently as well as act differently. The recovered water has become something to explore and share. Choice D.