1 In the winter of 1976, when I was only four years old, my family moved into a modest home in a growing Greenville neighborhood. Upon a slope on one side of the house, stood a dozen tree sprigs looking rather bald and barren. By springtime, however, the little trees began growing taller and bushier by the day. Upon exploring the hillside in mid-July, I noticed hundreds of quarter-sized, pinkish orbs dangling, daring me to pick just one. Of course, I did.

2Plums? I questioned. Yes, plums. she reiterated. She explained that these were not the same as the deeply colored, voluptuous kind I had seen in the market. These were a smaller and much sourer variety.

3 Knowing that they were safe, I ate enough that one afternoon to give me a stomach ache that lasted two days. As the plums became riper and sweeter, my grandma and I picked enough to fill two enormous buckets. She taught me to make jelly from the tiny fruits which we could enjoy all winter long.

4 Years later, I was driving down a long, winding highway when I noticed several wild plum trees lining the hedgerow. I had to pull over. I picked a heaping handful. As I sat there on the side of the highway, I basked in the tartness of my childhood fruit and in the sweetness of the memory of making jelly with the greatest woman I have ever known.

Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions:
4)
Which quotation from the passage suggests the speaker's fondness for her childhood?
A) "I showed Grandma my discovery, and she quickly identified them as wild-plums."
B) "Knowing that they were safe, I ate enough that one afternoon to give me a stomachache that lasted two days."
C) "In the winter of 1976, when I was only four years old, my family moved into a modest home in a growing Greenville neighborhood."
D) "As I sat there on the side of the highway, I basked in the tartness of my childhood fruit and in the sweetness of the memory of making jelly with the greatest woman I’ve ever known."
5)
What does the phrase "modest home" suggest about the speaker's family?
A) They were most likely a homeless family.
B) They were most likely a very wealthy family.
C) They were most likely a working, middle-class family.
D) They were most likely a family living an extravagant lifestyle.
6)
This essay is a personal narrative because
A) it is written from the alternating point of view.
B) it is written from the first person point of view.
C) it is written from the third person point of view.
D) it is written from the second person point of view.
E