Read the excerpt from "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty. The path ran up a hill. “Seem like there is chains about my feet, time I get this far,” she said, in the voice of argument old people keep to use with themselves. “Something always take a hold of me on this hill—pleads I should stay.”

What does the line “Seem like there is chains about my feet” suggest?

Answers:
1. Phoenix is feeling tired and sluggish from climbing up the hill.

2. The old woman is stumbling over her feet as she tries to climb up the hill.

3. Phoenix recalls being chained when she was enslaved before the Civil War.

4. The path is covered with brush and debris, making it difficult for Phoenix to climb it.