The correct answer is A) The narrator learns that her editor has had a family emergency.
The event from the story that is the climax is "The narrator learns that her editor has had a family emergency."
This story refers to the things a young individual had to do in order to get his first full-time job as a reporter, after sending many curriculums and being rejected for being unqualified for those positions. He finally had a chance to be a "cub reporter" in a newspaper chain.
Finally, he was hired, and on his first day on the job, the narrator says: "Two weeks later, when I arrived for my first day on the job, I discovered that my editor had been called away for a family emergency. I also learned that the state education department had announced that aid typically allocated to school districts in the area would not come through that year." That represents the climax of the story.
