Question

[Orin] stood there, he says, heftig a cold clod, playing with the Velcro on his puffy coat, watching as the Moms, bent way down to me, hand reaching, her lowering face with its presbyopic squint, suddenly stopped, froze, beginning to I.D. what it was I held out, countenancing evidence of oral contact with same. He remembers her face as past describing.

What is the meaning of the excerpt?

The narrator’s brother is ignoring his mother’s behavior.
The narrator’s brother is playing a trick on his mother.
The narrator’s mother is attempting to identify what her son ate.
The narrator’s mother is addressing her sons for their misbehavior.

Answer 1

The answer is definitely not A or B. The answer is D.

Answer 2

After reading the excerpt you can see that the narrator is describing a scene where a mom was trying to identify what the kid was holding out, it also says that “countenancing evidence of oral contact with same”, referring to try to identify is that was or not into the mouth of the character we can conclude that the answer is The narrator’s mother is addressing her sons for their misbehavior, she refers to what the kids said.