The golden brooch my mother wore
She left behind for me to wear;
I have no thing I treasure more:
Yet, it is something I could spare.
Oh, if instead she'd left to me
The thing she took into the grave! -
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.
—“The Courage That My Mother Had,”
Edna St. Vincent Milla
What was the one thing the author wished her mother left for her?
A) the treasure of the golden brooch
B) a rock to cherish her memory
C) her courage
D)something to wear to remember her

The answer is c) her courage