Read the passage.
excerpt from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is divided into four parts and documents Franklin’s life from 1771 to 1790.
My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church. My early readiness in learning to read (which must have been very early, as I do not remember when I could not read), and the opinion of all his friends, that I should certainly make a good scholar, encouraged him in this purpose of his. My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character. I continued, however, at the grammar-school not quite one year, though in that time I had risen gradually from the middle of the class of that year to be the head of it, and farther was removed into the next class above it, in order to go with that into the third at the end of the year.
Question 1
Part A
What effect does the word head have on the meaning of this passage?
Responses
It demonstrates how intelligent he was.
It demonstrates how intelligent he was.
It reveals how self-important he was.
It reveals how self-important he was.
It shows he was a favorite of the teachers.
It shows he was a favorite of the teachers.
It indicates he would be a good preacher.
It indicates he would be a good preacher.