Question

Read the excerpt from "The Legacy of Billy Mason."

The pages of the scrapbook were filled with clippings from newspapers, and they were all about Billy Mason and his team—the games they played and the plays he made. At the very end there was an article about Billy himself, how he was hardworking and courageous and how, in his rookie year, he was injured in a home-plate collision. He held onto the ball, won the game, and never played again. He took one for the team.

Billy closed the scrapbook. This was his father's scrapbook, left here in his grandmother’s house. Catcher Billy Mason was his father's hero. He had given his son his hero’s name as a kind of legacy. Billy held the scrapbook in his hands as he went downstairs to have his first real conversation with Grandma M.

Compared with Billy, Billy's father would have most likely reacted to finding the scrapbook by becoming

angry.
proud.
scared.
anxious.

Answer 1

Proud

It is clear from the way the scrapbook is put together that Billy's father is proud of Billy's baseball career and also the person he was during the time he played baseball. Because he also cut out the article that describes Billy as someone who "took one for the team", it shows he's also proud of Billy even though his baseball career ended early. We don't see any indication of fear, anger or anxiety surrounding the scrapbook.

Answer 2

The inference shows that Billy's father would have most likely being proud.

What is an inference?

It should be noted that an inference simply means the conclusion that can be deduced from the information given.

In this case, the inference shows that Billy's father would have most likely being proud. This was supported in the excerpt.

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