Question

Multiple Choice
Instructions
Reread the end of paragraph 7. Then answer the multiple choice questions that follow.
From The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
7 Johnny was high-strung anyway, a nervous wreck from getting belted every time he turned around and from hearing his parents fight all
the time. Living in those conditions might have turned someone else rebellious and bitter; it was killing Johnny. He had never been a
coward. He was a good man in a rumble. He stuck up for the gang and kept his mouth shut good around cops. But after the night of the
beating, Johnny was jumpier than ever. I didn't think he'd ever get over it. Johnny never walked by himself after that. And Johnny, who was
the most law-abiding of us, now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade. He'd use it, too, if he ever gotjumped again. They had
scared him that much. He would kill the next person who jumped him. Nobody was ever going to beat him like that again. Not over his dead
body....
1. Which of the following inferences can be supported by specific textual evidence from the passage?
A. Johnny had been the calmest one of the Greasers before the beating.
B. The beating by the Socs changed Johnny, perhaps permanently.
C. Being beaten by his father had made Johnny afraid of authority.
D. The beating by the Socs turned Johnny, who had been brave, into a coward.​

Answer 1

Answer:

B part I guess because beating changed him and it's mentioned nobody was going to beat him line that again.