Shakespeare’s plays can be divided into major categories. His tragedies center around heroes with tragic flaws. A tragic flaw is a defect in a character that leads to his or her demise and, often, death at the end of the play. In Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, the main character Hamlet’s indecision over whether to avenge his father’s death leads to his downfall. In Macbeth, Scottish general Macbeth’s ambition for the throne drives him to murder. He is then plagued by guilt and madness. Based on the passage, what is Hamlet’s tragic flaw in the play Hamlet?

A
extreme guilt

B
opposition to war

C
indecision

D
ambition

since it is asking for her reaction to elnora's trouble at school you can rule out any answers with a positive response (b). then you can rule out (d), this is because it does not show the mother's reaction but the daughter's response. that leaves you with two options (a) and (c), by looking at the options you can rule out (c) because it isn't referring back to elnora's issues at school.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

this is incorrect

explanation:

this is false