Character Choices/Actions: Short Fiction Practice Test

Consider the passage:

When the package arrived, it was addressed to “Resident” in block letters. Lina carried it inside, set it on the counter, and stared at the tape seam. She fetched a butter knife, slid it under the tape, then stopped. Instead of opening the box, she wrote “RETURN TO SENDER” across the top in thick marker and carried it back outside, setting it gently on the porch as if it were sleeping.

What does Lina’s refusing to open the package and marking it “RETURN TO SENDER” most strongly suggest about her?

Consider the passage:

Noah’s mother left three voicemails in a row, each shorter than the last. In the fourth, she said only, “Call me,” as if the words were a door she could shut. Noah listened to all four, then pressed delete. He did not block the number. Instead, he opened his calendar and scheduled a thirty-minute slot labeled “Call Mom,” set for two weeks from Friday at 3:00 p.m., and added an alert that would buzz ten minutes before.

What does Noah’s deleting the voicemails but scheduling a call two weeks later most strongly suggest about him?