Read the excerpt from "Seventeen Syllables."
I was about cats, and Rosie pretended to understand it
thoroughly and appreciate it [to] no end, partly because
she hesitated to disillusion her mother about the
quantity and quality of Japanese she had learned in all
the years now that she had been going to Japanese
school every Saturday (and Wednesday, too, in the
summer). Even so her mother must have been
skeptical about the depth of Rosie's understanding.
because she explained afterwards about the kind of
poem she was trying to write.
Mark this and return
Based on this passage, which word best describes
Rosie's mother?
O patient
O grateful
O tense
enthusiastic