Which of the elementary school teacher relatives was drafted to fight in the war on the day the children collapsed in the woods?

• A. Her sister
• B. Her husband
• C. Her father
• D. Her brother

Answer: (B)

The question tests your ability to track relationships and events described in the story. The narrative links the day the children collapsed in the woods to a war draft affecting someone close to the teacher. It specifies that the person drafted is her husband, which creates a direct connection between the teacher’s personal life and the crisis at school. This detail makes sense because a husband is the male relative most plausibly identified as the one drafted in that moment, and the story uses his absence to heighten the impact of the event on the teacher and her students. The other relatives—sister, father, or brother—are not described as being drafted on that day in the text, so they don’t fit the given context as precisely.