A couple of years ago I went to a reading by S.E. Hinton , the woman who , as a teenager , published The Outsiders . I keep returning to one thing she said that night : " I could n't have written The Outsiders as an adult , " said Hinton . " I had to be sixteen to get that upset about a bad haircut . " Another reading I went to that year was by Olivia Birdsall , who had just published her first book , Notes on a Near - Life Experience .

OPTIONS:
- They like fiction .
- None of the above choices .
- They like non - fiction .
- They like biographies .
Answer the following question: What type of literary works does the narrator like ?

They like fiction .
question: It was so gourmet and shi - shi ! They had cut black grapes in half lengthwise to make the ladybug heads , and laid them round side up on a plate . They had cut strawberries in half lengthwise to make ladybug bodies .

OPTIONS:
- Grapes are delicious and juicy .
- Ladybugs are cute to look at .
- None of the above choices .
- Grapes look good on a plate .
Q: Why are we pretending that we are eating something we 're not ?

answer: Ladybugs are cute to look at .
QUES: I got it outside , where it promptly hid in the floor mat by the breezeway - which , great idea , how 's about you hide in the precise place where we wipe our feet ? - and later snuck off into the front garden and away to its lizard lifestyle . Bizarre , especially because in three - plus years of living here , we ' ve never encountered either lizard or amphibian inside the house .

Question with options: What spooked the narrator at their home ?
OPTIONS:
- None of the above choices .
- They found cracks in the breezeway .
- They found a reptile .
- They found an intruder .
ANS: They found a reptile .
Problem: Probably not enough to make up for the charge to change the flight , but eh . I managed to have one last meal in Japan at a sushi place . Specifically , in addition to miso soup and orange juice , I had a piece of toro and a piece of avocado roll . I ' m a sucker for unintended symbolism like that .

Why did the narrator opt for Sushi ?
OPTIONS:
- The narrator only ate fish .
- The narrator was looking for protein .
- The narrator only ate carbs .
- The narrator wanted to have it before leaving Japan .

A: The narrator wanted to have it before leaving Japan .
Question:
So here I am on payday . I just cashed my check which had 96 hours on it . I had a total of 16 .something hours overtime on it . So I decided to treat myself to some new tunes .
Answer the following question: Why is the narrator buying new music ?
OPTIONS:
- They are feeling flush with cash .
- They are about to play in a band .
- They are going on a road trip .
- They are going to a concert .
Answer:
They are feeling flush with cash .
question: Positive changes usually do not happen overnight , but they do happen . For years China has been under a sea of rotting plastic bags , billions casually dumped every year . Since June this year , this tide of garbage had begun to ebb .

OPTIONS:
- The narrator would be described as wasteful with money .
- None of the above choices .
- The narrator would be described as a person who is leery of others .
- The narrator would be described as an environmentalist .
Q: How would the narrator be described in light of these comments ?

answer:
The narrator would be described as an environmentalist .