A New Student at Grover High by Moll Flowers

At my last school, I'd seen new students come and go. Other students were always picking on the new kids. New kids didn't have friends yet, so there was no one to stick up for them. Eventually they would learn to keep to themselves and lay low.
I never guessed that I would end up being a new student myself. But here I was, in a new town where no one knew anything about me. It was my first day of school at Grover High, and I wanted nothing more than to simply fade into the background. I didn't want to make a fool of myself.
My attempt at being invisible didn't work, however. Kids kept coming up to me and introducing themselves. When people looked up at me with grins on their faces, I figured I had food stuck in my teeth, or maybe there was something wrong with my clothes. But no one laughed. Mainly, they were just curious about where I was from, and what life had been like at my previous school.
The kids were oddly well behaved. I wondered if the school building itself might have something to do with it. Whereas my last school had been overcrowded, making it difficult to be on time for class, here the hallways were roomy. There were no more than 15 or 20 kids in each class. I noticed they had new facilities, too.
At the end of my first day, my art teacher did something that I normally wouldn't have liked. She took my drawing of a mountain landscape and held it up in front of the class. She said it was a good example of three-dimensional perspective. I looked around and noticed that the other kids were actually impressed. They nodded at me respectfully and then returned to their drawings. I couldn't believe it. At that moment, a sense of calm came over me. I realized that Grover High was going to be unlike anything I'd ever experienced before.
10
How would the story have been different if it had taken place at the narrator's previous school?
A.
The narrator would have advised new students to introduce themselves to other students.
B.
The narrator would not have agreed to enroll in a drawing class at her previous school.
C.
The students would have reacted differently to the narrator's drawing of a mountain landscape.
D.
The hallways and classrooms would have been spacious and equipped with newer computer models.

Excerpt from 100% - the story of a patriot upton sinclair 10 so peter walked along, with his belt drawn tight, and his restless blue eyes wandering here and there, looking for a place to get a meal. there were jobs to be had, but they were hard jobs, and peter wanted an easy one. there are people in this world who live by their muscles, and others who live by their wits; peter belonged to the latter class; and had missed many a meal rather than descend in the social scale. 11 peter looked into the faces of everyone he passed, searching for a possible opening. some returned his glance, but never for more than a second, for they saw an insignificant looking man, undersized, undernourished, and with one shoulder higher than the other, a weak chin and mouth, crooked teeth, and a brown moustache too feeble to hold itself up at the corners. peters' straw hat had many straws missing, his second-hand brown suit was become third-hand, and his shoes were turning over at the sides. in a city where everybody was "hustling," everybody, as they phrased it, "on the make," why should anyone take a second glance at peter gudge? why should anyone care about the restless soul hidden inside him, or dream that peter was, in his own obscure way, a sort of genius? no one did care; no one did dream. 12 it was about two o'clock of an afternoon in july, and the sun beat down upon the streets of american city. there were crowds upon the streets, and peter noticed that everywhere were flags and bunting. once or twice he heard the strains of distant music, and wondered what was "up." peter had not been reading the newspapers; all his attention bad been taken up by the quarrels of the smithers faction and the lunk faction in the first apostolic church, otherwise known as the holy rollers, and great events that had been happening in the world outside were of no concern to him. peter knew vaguely that on the other side of the world half a dozen mighty nations were locked together in a grip of death; the whole earth was shaken with their struggles, and peter had felt a bit of the trembling now and then. but peter did not know that his own country had anything to do with this european quarrel, and did not know that certain great interests throughout the country had set themselves to rouse the public to action. based on the author's characterization of peter in paragraphs 10, 11, and 12, which word best describes him? a) industrious b) loyal c) patriotic d) poor