What business did Mattie take care of at the undertaker's?

• A. She paid for funeral expenses.
• B. She buried him in town.
• C. She arranged for her father's body to be sent by train to Dardanelle.
• D. She took his clothes home.

Answer: (C)

This moment centers on Mattie taking practical control of logistics after her father’s death. At the undertaker’s, her main action is to arrange for her father’s body to be sent by train to Dardanelle so he can be buried there. This shows her determination to return him to his home area and makes use of the era’s travel routes to get the body to the burial site she intends.

Why this fits best: it highlights her focus on the burial destination and the means of transport, which is the core task she’s handling with the undertaker. The other possibilities aren’t what she’s doing in that scene—burying him locally, taking clothes home, or simply paying expenses don’t capture the concrete action of arranging transport to Dardanelle.