The following text is about two boys, Bud and Jerry, who are going to new foster homes. Select the detail that best shows Jerry is alarmed at the idea of living with three little girls.

‘Now that the school year has ended, you both have been accepted in new temporary-care homes starting this afternoon!’

Jerry asked the same thing I was thinking. ‘Together?’

She said, ‘Why, no. Jerry, you’ll be in a family with three little girls . . . ‘

Jerry looked like he’d just found out they were going to dip him in a pot of boiling milk.