Read this sentence from “Uncle Marcos” and then answer the
question.
The next day people thronged the downtown streets hoping to see Severo
del Valle’s brother-in-law playing the organ and selling little sawdust balls
with a moth-eaten parrot, for the sheer pleasure of proving that even in the
best of families there could be good reason for embarrassment.
From the details in the sentence, what inference can most clearly be drawn about
Uncle Marcos’s family?
a. The family is prominent.
b. The family is quite poor.
c. The family is widely disliked.
d. The family is very old-fashioned.